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FD-350 (Rev. 6-8-81) (Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and slale. LOS ANGELES TIMES PAGE Di LOS ANGELES, CA —_— (Mount Clipping in Space Below) we _ 1) “) LGb THE BIZ / CHUCK PHILIPS and ALAN ABRAHAMSON Eee Rapper Leaves Tangled... ‘Financial; Legal Legacy ae Classification: The dispute ‘illustrates how recording Slain' rap star Tupac Shakur sold mare Submitting Office: - than $60 million worth of albums this year. artists’ contracts are skewed in favor of ~ -alone, making him one of the top-selling .. record. companies. Even if Shakur had domestic artists. Yet, at the time of his” _ recorded additional albums, he would likely - death, the rapper owed his record company * have remained in debt for years to come, “‘solirces said. . “Tupac was one of the mast successful LOS ANGELES ” $4.9 million, Shakur’s attorney says." ” Shakur’s mother—who last week won'a - ‘eourt battle forcing Death Row Records artists in the music busiiess—and yet .and two.other companies to stop selling . somehow, on the day he died, he had unauthorized Tupac merchandise—be- absolutely nothing to show for it,” said lieves Death Row shortchanged her son out New York attorney Richard Fischbein, of royalty payments and has hired an whoalong with Afeni Shakur is co-admin- ‘ auditor to conduct .an independent ac-, _ istrator of the rap star's estate. “We believe counting of the rap label's books. The allegations stem from an unusual handwritten three-page contract drafted . and signed while Shakur was in prison in 1995, that Death Row withheld royalty pay- ments from Tupac and failed to deliver many of the advances promised under his contract.” Please see THE BIZ, D7 | wi FRI/DOJ LOLA ~ tt) — a, IIH TH,