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Film: ‘The people who know the truth are haunted by it’
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LEFT: Forest Whitaker plays a journalist in “City of Lies.” RIGHT: Johnny Depp plays a detective
in the movie.
the director. Sullivan has an
executive producer credit.
“City of Lies” received
its international premiere in
Italy in 2019. Saban Films
took on distribution rights
and the fi lm is now playing
throughout the country.
Sullivan’s follow up
to “LAbyrinth,” “Dead
Wrong: The Continuing
Story of City of Lies, Cor-
ruption and Cover-Up in
the Notorious BIG Murder
Investigation,” was pub-
lished in 2019.
Sullivan said he hopes a
result is to see the wrong-
ful-death case fi led by Big-
gie’s mother, Voletta Wal-
lace, against Los Angeles
reopened. Wallace could
seek $1 billion in damages.
Sullivan thinks she can win.
“Absolutely, the only
hope is this lawsuit,” he
said. “That’s all that’s left.
(Wallace) will win if they
get it past the 9th Circuit,
which would have to rule
to reopen it. I think there’s
enough for a criminal con-
viction,
and
certainly
enough to win a civil trial.
“LAPD has such political
power. It is the most politi-
cally connected and power-
ful police department in the
country, even the New York
City Police Department,”
he added. “They control the
local agenda to an incredi-
ble degree. Even through all
this, the Black Lives Matter
movement, they still have
had the power to scare peo-
ple. They still haven’t felt
the repercussions for this.”
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years there before a move
to Portland. “My dad was
a walking boss,” he said.
“It’s like a longshore fore-
man. He was a rugged man,
rough and very bright.”
Sullivan attended the
University of Oregon and
then went to Columbia Uni-
versity in New York City
on a writing fellowship.
He was hired at the New
York Daily News, then the
United States’ largest cir-
culation newspaper. He
worked there for a year
when the 1978 New York
newspaper strike brought
his job to a temporary halt.
When he got a job off er
from the legendary edi-
tor Jim Bellows at the Los
Angeles Herald Examiner,
he jumped at it and returned
to the West Coast as front-
page editor with a daily
column.
He won a Los Ange-
les Press Club award for
the series “LAPD: A Mat-
ter of Black and White.” “It
was all about the way Black “LAbyrinth,” by Randall Sullivan, served as the basis for the
cops were being treated fi lm “City of Lies.”
and marginalized,” Sulli-
van said. “It really forced account, an inmate at Cal- Poole to a storage unit that
the LAPD to start hiring ifornia’s Corcoran State revealed an entire wall
and promoting more Black Prison said his cellmate had lined with boxes of docu-
cops.”
confi ded that Suge Knight, ments he had carried out of
Two years later, Jann the founder of Death Row the police department’s rob-
Wenner, the publisher of Records, from behind bars, bery-homicide division.
Rolling Stone, recruited had hired another gang
“I made copies and when
Sullivan. A working rela- member to take out Biggie, I read them, knew this was
tionship developed that whose name was Christo- an incredible story of cor-
would last more than 20 pher Wallace.
ruption and cover-up,” Sul-
years. Sullivan made his
A former Death Row livan said. “The people who
home base in Portland employee claimed he could know the truth are haunted
while raising twins, a boy provide police with evi- by it, it was almost impos-
and a girl.
dence that Biggie had been sible for them to live with
“I was going back and murdered by members of it and accept. It almost kills
forth to LA constantly,” Knight’s “goon squad.”
them inside.”
he said. “I was the high-
The Los Angeles Police
‘City of Lies’
est-paid writer on the staff Department and the FBI
In “City of Lies,” Poole
and got the most freedom took the case to prosecutors,
by far. I did have a really who refused to proceed. is played by Depp. The
privileged position.”
Neither the Los Angeles character of the journal-
Sullivan said the major- County District Attorney’s ist, originally modeled on
ity of clues collected by Offi ce nor the U.S. attor- Sullivan, is renamed and
investigators assigned to ney’s offi ce explained why. played by Whitaker.
Sullivan wrote early
Notorious B.I.G.’s murder
“After he decided he
pointed in the same direc- liked me, Russ said he drafts of the fi lm’s screen-
tion as the word on the wanted to show me some- play from his book. The
fi nal script is by Christian
street.
thing,” Sullivan said.
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Sullivan
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