Jerry Heller sued Ice Cube, Dr. Dre and Eazy-E’s widow Tomica Woods-Wright last week for falsely portraying him in the N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton.
The group’s former manager spoke with Rolling Stone about his decision to take the producers of the film to court. One of the points of contention is the way the relationship of Heller, played by Paul Giamatti, and Eazy-E is portrayed. In the film, Eazy-E fires Heller.
“I was with him until the day of his untimely death,” Heller says in the Rolling Stone interview. “I still think about him every day. He was like my son. He was a visionary. He was the greatest, and I’ve always believed that only he and I really understood the significance of what N.W.A was. The rest of the guys were like, ‘Hey, we’re going to be a big group, and we’re going to make money.'”
He says that he sued Eazy-E’s widow because her role as producer in the film broke the contract he had with her saying neither party would say defamatory things about each other. Heller adds that he was not consulted about the filming of the movie and this lawsuit is the way he can put his influence on the film.
“Nobody reached out to me,” he says. “I didn’t know what was in the movie. They knew what was in the movie. I didn’t, until I saw it on the screen. Nobody from their camp ever reached out to me once to talk about, ‘Are you going to like this?’ or anything else. I thought that was disrespectful. If that’s the way they choose to do business, then that’s why there’s a lawsuit now.”
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In his own book he says he wasn’t around Eazy-E during his last days because Eazy-E had ‘pushed’ him away. Jerry Heller was fired even Gary Heller has admitted that.
Who is Gary Heller?
Who is Gary heller
I know what NWA meant more than Jerry and Easy-E when one time when I was high.
Stank Azz J E W!
Jerry Heller is NOT a N**** With Attitude.
But he has white superpowers, hasn’t he?
GOOD. IT’S A MADE UP BULLSHIT MOVIE ANYWAY. THE WAY THEY SHITTED ON REN AND MADE EAZY LOOK BROKE. NOT TO MENTION ALLLLL THE PEOPLE THEY LEFT OUT. FUCK THIS WACK AS FAIRY TALE CUBE AND DRE MOVIE.
CUBE & REN DIDN’T KNOW THE SIGNIFICANCE OF NWA EVEN KNOW THEY BROUGHT IT PURE AN RAW… fuck off Jerry before Tom comes & gets you!!!
What happened after Dre and Cube left NWA…was it influental or did the group sink…where are Dre and Cube now…if they didn’t have vision and are not businessman…Dre and Cube have successful careers and companies…they were the driving force behind NWA and ruthless…Eazy came with finances but you also need people who are geniuses to carry your plans….Eazy just trusted the wrong man and forgot his friends
lol I’m sorry you is so funny going off what cube and dre say! Say what you want but from what I seen back then eazy was the God of the group and still is! No one gave a fuck about them, that’s why both of them hate eazy so much! He had money, women, the streets behind him, fans was crazy over him, also sexy lol! Fuck dre & cube like eazy said always a bitch still a bitch! Also keep your mouth off ren and yella because at the end of the day both of them stop doing music because eazy died and they was hurt when cube &dre couldn’t even show up at they homie funeral!
@ Jase this movie was about NWA , Eazy , Dre and Cube…don’t talk ish…it wasn’t about Bone thugs , Arabian prince , Bg Knocc out or any motherf…s…who wanted to shine and profit from the movie…secondly…if Eazy wasn’t blinded by the lych hella and money NWA would have been in a different place…You can hate all you want but Dre and Cube were the talent…where’s Yella where’s Ren…where’s Dj quik…etc tec
FUCK DRE & CUBE!
EAZY was the best “G”ever!They got no RESPECT for EAZY!
DRE DAY IS EAZY-E´S PAY DAY!!!!!!!
CUBE is a GAY PUPPET like DR DRE!
@eazy…FUCK EAZY E…HE DESTROYED A GOOD THING…I WOULDN’T RESPECT SOMEONE ALSO WHO ROBBED ME…
But that’s coming from two guys that left that’s not know fact because they never went to court! Eazy ask dre and cube to take him to court but they didn’t! Do I believe they was lying!
Oh yeah!EAZY robbed nobody!
They was saying EAZY was bankrupt ,but EAZY was making more than 10 millions a month & he was not dying in “FULL BLOWN AIDS”!
CUBE also disrespect MC REN & YELLA in this movie!Oh yeah CUBE was hard ?SNOOP & PAC in this movie & also THE CHRONIC?SUCK MY Dxx BITCx!!!!!!!
EAZY writing diss Tracks about Cube & DRE that never released & CUBE was Crying!Thats from YELLA himsel in an Interview!Where are BONE THUGS;BG KNOCC OUT & DRE´STA???????
EAZY met PAC first!DEATH ROW must paying EAZY for the CHRONIC & also ICE CUBE with his two solo Albums!EAZY was the winner with ITS ON!!!!!!!!!!
EAZY was the only real GANGSTA in NWA!
THRILL ME MOTHERPHUxxxx!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FUCK ICE CUBE & DR DRE there are MOTHERPHUxxxx BITCxx & they can SUxx MY Dxx!!!!!!!!!
Man as I see it Jerry manipulated eazy @ first it probably started with good intentions but as shit evolved and cube start learning bout the business Jerry started seeing that he got figured out so when people see they can’t fuck u around then u get ostisized from the group dre didn’t see it at first but finally woked up and realized his worth as one of the best producer in the history of rap 30 years in the game for this man named anybody else who is practically everything he touch has went platinum from world class to nwa to em to the game and now Kendrick and shit that in between those I name
fuck jerry heller! OK bye
fucking hoeasscake
@ DA evil seed I COMPLETELY AGREE WITH YOU…
Fuck Jerry Heller and
the white superpowers coz Ice Cube said so… You were never an N N, dup dup, dup
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So stupid who cares at the end of the day eazy e the godfather and every rapper today going off ruthless family tree which is eazy label! Just because cube and dre have much success now don’t mean they not snakes! Dre is so fake it’s crazy and cube is selfish! I feel like if they had a problem still with eazy right till today, they shouldn’t have made that movie! Because straight outta Compton movie was so wrong when it came to eazy, I mean disrespectful! And cube did it so smooth he got people thinking that’s how shit went back then! Boy I tell you and what is so bad about it eazy not here to stand up for his self so cube and dre can say whatever and people will believe! Here my thing if jerry was such a crazy snake old man then why he the only one keeping it 100 when cube and dre making up shit! I mean it’s clear but people want believe in bring up the success they have now! And right now cube paying for his son to win all the awards and everyone still don’t see cube a snake ass bitch! It is what it is but eazy was a real g and both of them knew that, that’s why they all was using his style! Dre left nwa acting like eazy! I think dre is sick in a way like he wanted to be eazy so bad and cube hated the fact people loved eazy more then all of them!