Gerald Elliot " Jerry " Heller October 6, — September 2, was an American music manager and businessman. He was best known for managing West Coast rap supergroup and gangsta rap pioneers N. Fad , The D. Heller played a role in the emergence of West Coast rap music when he managed Ruthless Records with Eazy-E and discovered, signed or managed the likes of N.

A, The Black Eyed Peas , Above the Law , The D. Heller suffered from a heart attack while driving, resulting in an auto accident. He later died on September 2, in Thousand Oaks, California. Born to a Jewish family in Cleveland, Ohio, [3] Heller served in the United States Army and attended college at University of Southern California , and started working in the agency business in He later bought out partner Don Fischel who went on to package independent TV productions.

Heller believed that a key factor in keeping acts working between or after a hit record was to not be greedy and package his own clients together, but tour them in salable packages with other headline acts that were clients of other agencies. Starting in the mids, Heller represented rap musicians as the genre became popular with the record-buying U. To date, Ruthless Records has sold in excess of million records, not counting singles.

The label included artists and producers such as Dr. Dre , whose careers Heller helped establish, and sold millions of records for Interscope Records , Priority Records , Atlantic Records , MCA Records , and Sony Records. In the s, Heller began managing acts on the nascent Los Angeles hip hop scene, many of whom recorded for the now defunct Macola Records in Hollywood.

He managed both C. Dre and DJ Yella. Fad , Eazy-Duz-It Eazy-E , Straight Outta Compton N. A , No One Can Do It Better The D.

The JDL offered to provide bodyguards to Eazy-E when Suge Knight allegedly threatened him in the early s. The presence of bodyguards provided Ruthless Records with muscle to enter into negotiations with Knight over Dr.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation launched a money laundering investigation, assuming that the JDL was extorting money from Ruthless Records. JDL spokesperson Irv Rubin issued a press release stating, "There was nothing but a close, tight relationship" between Eazy-E and the League.

Heller claimed Eazy-E received death threats and it was discovered that he was on a Nazi skinhead hit list. Heller speculated that placement on the hit list might have been because of N.

A's song " Fuck tha Police. Dre, Michel'le, and The D. A broke up in , with Ice Cube and Dr. Dre departing and aiming criticism at Heller and Eazy in diss tracks. Both Ice Cube and Dre accused Heller of breaking up N. A with the way he managed the group. He played the divide and conquer game. Instead of taking care of everybody, he picked one nigga to take care of and that was Eazy.

And Eazy was like, 'I'm taken care of, so fuck it'. Also, "It's a case of divide and conquer, 'cause you let a Jew break up my crew" and "house nigga gotta run and hide, yellin' Compton but you moved to Riverside.

They divorced in With regards to the FBI letter sent after the NWA song " Fuck tha Police ," Heller wrote that the letter was actually a rogue action by a "single pissed-off bureaucrat with a bully pulpit" named Milt Ahlerich, who was falsely purporting to represent the FBI as a whole and that the action "earned him a transfer to the Bureau's backwater Hartford office".

He denied the accusations of financial impropriety. He claimed that the deathbed letter from Eazy-E was a forgery: Of the Dee Barnes incident, in which she was beaten by Dr. Dre in the midst of the feud between Ice Cube and the remaining members of N. A, Heller called the incident "disgraceful" and that he was "left to clean up the mess". Dre was generally non-violent and mild-mannered, but had drunk too much on the night. In a interview, on the Murder Master Music Show, Heller said that Eazy-E had planned on killing Suge Knight , but Heller was able to talk Eazy out of it.

I should have let him kill him. I would have done the world a favor. He would have done it for sure by himself.

He always rolled by himself and he was fearless. I think that he was going to go do it. I took him seriously. He was right and I was wrong.

Heller was portrayed by actor Paul Giamatti in the N. A biopic film, Straight Outta Compton. In October , Heller filed a lawsuit against several members of N. A, NBCUniversal and others involved in the production of Straight Outta Compton. Dre and Ice Cube. The lawsuit claims "the film is littered with false statements that harm the reputation of Heller and aim to ridicule and lower him in the opinion of the community and to deter third persons from associating or dealing with him.

Dre, filed a countersuit in February to have portions of the Heller suit thrown out. District Judge Michael Fitzgerald dismissed nearly all of Heller's lawsuit, but agreed to allow one key claim to continue. Heller, who had a history of heart problems and diabetes, was driving on September 2, when he suffered a heart attack, crashed his car, and later died at a hospital in Thousand Oaks, California.

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