She wrote on Gawker, "My life changed that night. Dre, who did not contest the suit and paid a fine of $2,500, 24 months of probation, and 240 hours of community service.īarnes had issued a statement at the time, saying that he punched her head and began, "slamming her face and the right side of her body repeatedly against a wall." Dre had a history of physically abusing women between 1980 and mid-1990s, to which he had hardly expressed regret in those years, even after suffering the legal consequences which he never contested.ĭee Barnes, a former rapper and Fox TV show host on Pump It Up!, filed a lawsuit against him saying she was assaulted by Dr.
WHAT DOES DR DRE SAY ABOUT SURVIVING COMPTON MOVIE MOVIE
However, critics of the movie say the Straight Outta Compton skips over the charges of abuse against the real-life protagonists of the movie. This year proved to be a very successful one for him, with the release of his biopic on hip-hop group, N.W.A., Straight Outta Compton that opened with gross earnings of over $80 million last week, even as his first album after 16 years Compton rose to No. I'm doing everything I can so I never resemble that man again," the former rapper told The New York Times. I've been married for 19 years and every day I'm working to be a better man for my family, seeking guidance along the way. However, none of this is an excuse for what I did. "Twenty-five years ago I was a young man drinking too much and in over my head with no real structure in my life. Dre aka Andre Young resurfaced again, for which Young has issued a formal apology. Amid the rocking success of Straight Outta Compton, decades old accusations of misogynistic abuse against the co-producer of the movie Dr.