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CHAKA KHAN MUST PAY $1.3M JUDGMENT: Singer and son must compensate family of teen killed in their home.
*Los Angeles newspaper Daily Breeze is reporting that Chaka Khan and her son Damien Holland have been ordered to pay more than $1.3 million to the family of a teen who was killed in their home following a dispute in 2004.
According to court records, Superior Court Judge Bob Hight approved a default judgment against them in November for more than $1.3 million, plus interest, after Khan and Holland failed to respond to the lawsuit.
Khan's manager, Tammy McCrary, said Friday that the singer never received the lawsuit and knew nothing about the judgment.
The family of 17-year-old Christopher Bailey filed a wrongful death and negligence lawsuit against Khan and Holland, 29, after a jury acquitted Holland of Bailey's murder in May 2006.
Holland shot Bailey in the face with an M-16 assault rifle on Sept. 24, 2004. During the trial, Holland admitted he had a friend punch him in the face and initially lied to the police to make it seem as if Bailey attacked him. He also testified he was upset because Bailey was having an affair with his girlfriend, but that the gun went off accidentally.
Bailey, in pursuit of a rap career, moved in with Khan and her family to work with Holland in their studio.
Bailey's parents filed the wrongful death and negligence suit in September 2006 against Khan, Holland, Khan's mother and Khan's company. While Khan and Holland never responded to the lawsuit, Khan's mother, Sandra Coleman, settled with Bailey's family for $500,000, court records show.
However, the family contends that was only half of what they agreed to.
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