When did Lydia Harris sue Snoop Dogg? The OG Rapper and Death Row Records move to dismiss $107M lawsuit

Death Row Records co-founder Michael 'Harry-O''s ex, Lydia Harris, sued rapper Snoop Dogg and Suge Knight in late March 2025. As per All Hip Hop, in a recent article published on April 22, Snoop and the record company are moving to dismiss the $107 million lawsuit.

Harris' lawsuit comes weeks before Snoop's upcoming gospel album, Altar Call, which is scheduled to be released on April 27.

Harris originally sued Suge Knight in 2003. In her 2005 lawsuit, Harris claimed that she helped launch the Hip-Hop label in 1989 by investing $1.5 million and serving as the original vice president. Dogg was named in the lawsuit after he acquired the record company in February 2022.

Harris won a $107 million default judgment in 2005, the same year she and Harry O got divorced, against the record company boss and companies behind the record company after accusing them of cheating her out of her share in the business.

However, Harris, in her recent March lawsuit, claimed that in the past two decades, she hasn't been able to connect the money and proceeded to file another lawsuit against the company, Snoop Dogg, which acquired the record label in February. She also claimed that Dogg was involved in Suge's alleged scam.

More about Lydia Harris' lawsuit against Snoop Dogg and Death Row Records

In her latest March 2025 lawsuit, Lydia Harris accuses Snoop Dogg, Death Row Records, Suge Knight, Universal Music Group, Interscope Records, and Time Warner of

"fraud on the court, civil conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and abuse of legal process."

She also accused the defendants of concealing financial records, submitting misleading court filings, and using bankruptcy as a tactic to avoid judgment. She is demanding

"punitive damages, asset recovery, and a full accounting of Death Row's finances."

The rapper and Death Row Records, as a response, asked a judge to dismiss Harris' lawsuit, calling her claims "undeniably time-barred" while accusing her of dragging out a decades-old legal battle. The court filing also states that Harris' case is long past the statute of limitations. The motion to dismiss also seeks to prevent Lydia from filing any future lawsuits against the label and its current owner. It also says that Harris is

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"a bad faith litigant" who "continued a pattern of harassment in California for years and has now shifted her harassment to a new forum in Texas."

The court is yet to decide on the motion.

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