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Michael Harris, a drug kingpin serving life at San Quentin, allegedly financed Death Row Records with $1 million from his wife and backed Denzel Washington's first Broadway production with another $1 million before Washington became famous.
Michael Harris, a drug kingpin serving life at San Quentin, allegedly financed Death Row Records with $1 million from his wife and backed Denzel Washington's first Broadway production with another $1 million before Washington became famous.
We had this guy named Michael Harris. Some people call him Harry O. So Harry was famous because in his early 20s he was basically a drug kingpin and he made a lot of money. And eventually he gets sentenced to life in prison. And when he was 32 years old, he founded Death Row Records with Dr. Dre and Suge Knight while he was serving a life sentence in San Quentin. What was he able to offer them while he was in prison for life? Money. His wife was on the outside. She somehow had funds to fund Death Row Records. When he was 29, I think, he was the ever Black producer of a Broadway musical or Broadway show. He funded Denzel Washington, his first ever play. He was the investor that funded the show with $1 million.
If I invested in Denzel before he became Denzel, I would never shut up about it.
Google Michael Harris, Denzel Washington. You'll see a photo of them together. That's incredible.
