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Goodbye, Earle
jimdeere
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News reports are that he overdosed on drugs, which lead to the heart attack and being brain-dead.
I can't stand rap "music."
In today's society I am sure it is my fault...
Never heard of him.
Damn, Earl is dead ................................. Wait, Who the heck is Earl?
Here is. Quick bio. Obviously the family should sue “the system” for failing to rehabilitate him.
DMX was first sent to prison in 1986 for stealing a dog from a junkyard. He spent two years in a juvenile correctional facility in New York. A few weeks after he began his sentence, alongside his cellmate, he escaped. When he got home, his mother forced him to turn himself in, and he listened. He finished his sentence at the McCormick Juvenile Detention in New York.
Two years later, X was in prison again for carjacking, and after he extorted another inmate, they moved him to a higher security prison from which he was released in the summer of 1988.
After reaching worldwide fame, his convictions started increasing. He’s been arrested several times for animal cruelty, reckless and unlicensed driving, drug possession, and identity falsification.
“Before I really had a life, jail was a playground. I’d be like, “I’m going to jail and have fun.” Jail used to be fun.” — DMX, GQ Interview
Blessings with Curses
In 1999, the Fort Lee Police Department executed a search warrant in DMX’s home, and he surrendered himself on the account of weapon possession charges. The same year, he was charged with animal cruelty because he kept a dozen pit bulls at his New Jersey home. Once he agreed to accept responsibility and make public service announcements for an animal rights group, the charges were dropped.
Between 2000 and 2001, he served time for possession of marijuana, driving without a license, and assault for throwing objects at prison guards.
In 2002, after a failed attempt in rehab, he pleaded guilty to thirteen counts of animal cruelty, two counts of maintaining a nuisance, and one count each of disorderly conduct and possession of drugs. Eventually, he was released on probation and had to pay fines and do community service, and also star in public service announcements against the dangers of guns and animal abuse.
In 2004, he was arrested for cocaine possession, criminal impersonation, possession of a weapon, criminal mischief, menacing, and driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol. He claimed to be a federal agent to carjack a vehicle.
At the end of the year, he was given a conditional discharge, but pleaded guilty on October 25, 2005, to violating parole and was sentenced to spend seventy days in jail.
After he was released, he laid low until 2008 when he was charged for drug possession and animal cruelty again because he barricaded himself inside his home in Arizona. At the end of the year, he pleaded guilty to charges of drug possession, theft, and animal cruelty, and spent ninety days behind bars.
On May 22, 2009, he entered a plea agreement for attempted aggravated assault. The following year, he served four months for violating probation and was released on July 6, 2010. After he was out of jail, he got offered a television pilot that would follow his recovery. The filming had begun, but X got arrested three weeks later, and the development of the series had been canceled.
On July 27, 2010, he turned himself into the Los Angeles Metropolitan Court for reckless driving he committed in 2002. After he served another ninety days in prison, it didn’t take him long to get arrested again for violating probation due to alcohol consumption at a concert performance. He was moved to the Mental Health Unit of the Arizona State Prison and spent seven months there.
From 2011 to 2013, he didn’t seem to care about driving a car without a license or under the influence of alcohol and drugs. He got caught multiple times in South Carolina because the local police kept on eye on him after they realized that he wasn’t going to learn from his previous arrests.
Child Support Charges
Over the years, DMX had become the father of fifteen children from several women. On June 26, 2015, he was arrested for committing a robbery in Newark and $400,000 of outstanding child support that he failed to pay to his ex-wife Tashera Simmons. In July, he was sentenced to spend six months in jail for those charges.
Tax Evasion
In 2017, X had to face charges of fourteen counts by federal prosecutors. He failed to file his income tax returns from 2002 to 2005 and from 2010 to 2015. According to Forbes, in that period, he earned over $2.3 million, but instead of filing tax returns, he orchestrated a scheme to avoid paying his liabilities. He stopped using his personal bank accounts and asked his business managers to use their own accounts to cover his expenses or use cash whenever it was applicable. Later, he attempted to file a false bankruptcy that listed his income as “unknown” for 2011 and 2012.
He claimed that he only made $10,000 in 2013, but in reality, he earned hundreds of thousands of dollars of income in each of those years. In fact, between 2011 and 2012, he was paid $125,000 for starringin a TV show titled Celebrity Couples Therapy.
Eventually, he pleaded guilty to one count of tax fraud and he was sentenced to one year in prison with a condition that after his release, three years of supervised probation will follow. On January 25, last year, he had been officially released from jail.
Stand up guy..............lol
I am completely shocked . and to happen to such a outstanding citizen darn shame
no worries I would bet tax payers are taking care of the baby mommas and kids
and good odds he will vote democrat in 2024
At least 30 times in the pokey not counting his Juvie Record. The pOlease knew him on a 1st name basis.
He must have been like the guy in front of me at the check out line,He was about 25 years old and was bragging to the cute young white check out girl that he had 21 children.I said that you must have a good paying job to support 21 kids.I got a strange look and silence.
All those charges of animal cruelty show his true colors.
Scum bag.
The world is a better place with him in the ground. His mother should have pinched his head off and flushed him down the toilet when he was born.
A rapper died brain dead. How would you know??
Never heard of him but the police sure have. LEO's across the nation gave a collective sigh of relief to hear he assumed room temperature.
Appears he did a pretty good job of impersonating a criminal.
Will Joe from Scranton lower the flags?
Fighting dogs or fighting roosters both are animal cruelty charges. I guess him and Micheal Vick had something in common.