{"id":655068,"date":"2026-05-20T20:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T20:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/655068\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T20:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T20:14:11","slug":"snoop-doggs-company-tries-to-escape-drakeo-the-rulers-wrongful-death-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/655068\/","title":{"rendered":"Snoop Dogg’s Company Tries to Escape Drakeo the Ruler’s Wrongful Death Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Snoop Dogg
\n Wants Out of Lawsuit Over Drakeo the Ruler’s Death<\/p>\n

\n Published
\n May 20, 2026
\n 11:51 AM PDT
\n |
\n Updated
\n May 20, 2026
\n 1:08 PM PDT\n <\/p>\n

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Snoop Dogg<\/a>‘s company is asking a judge to throw out the wrongful death lawsuit he’s facing … claiming his company is in no way responsible for the tragedy.<\/p>\n

The rapper filed a motion asking for a summary judgment in the case filed by Drakeo the Ruler<\/a>‘s brother against his company, Snoop Dogg’s LLC … even submitting a declaration claiming his company had no involvement in the 2021 Once Upon a Time in L.A. festival operations and can’t be sued over the death that occurred there.<\/p>\n


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Snoop says his company never signed a lease or license agreement … and doesn’t\u00a0hold any ownership or leasehold interest in Exposition Park where the stabbing took place.<\/p>\n

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Basically, Snoop performed at the festival … but he says that was the extent of his involvement — and he shouldn’t be on the hook in the wrongful death suit.<\/p>\n

Snoop also makes it clear no one from his company witnessed or participated in Drakeo’s death … nor did they have any relationship with the assailants who killed Drakeo.<\/p>\n

The document goes on like this … Snoop says no one from the company heard or knows anything, didn’t participate in planning the event, didn’t hire security, etc.<\/p>\n

Remember … Drakeo’s brother filed<\/a> a lawsuit in 2022 a few months after the rapper was killed<\/a> at the festival — claiming the security measures were woefully inadequate.<\/p>\n

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He cast a wide net with the lawsuit … suing numerous defendants like Live Nation and even LAFC — the Major League Soccer club which plays at BMO Stadium where the stabbing occurred.<\/p>\n

Worth noting … LAFC also filed a motion for summary judgment which was granted earlier this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Snoop Dogg Wants Out of Lawsuit Over Drakeo the Ruler’s Death Published May 20, 2026 11:51 AM PDT…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":["post-655068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}