(Update) Suge Knight’s Fiancee Toi-Lin Kelly Sentenced to Three Years In Prison

(Update) Suge Knight’s Fiancee Toi-Lin Kelly Sentenced to Three Years In Prison

Marion “Suge” Knight’s murder trial has more twists and turns than a pretzel. On Friday (Feb. 2), the former rap mogul’s fiancee was sentenced to three years in jail for violating her probation in relation to the case.

According to New York Daily News, Knight’s fiancee, Toi-Lin Kelly, violated a court order by arranging jailhouse phone calls for him with producers of a BET documentary about Death Row Records, a label he founded in 1988.

Los Angeles County Superior Judge Douglas Sortino discovered that she was communicating with Knight through a private detective, which violated the terms of her probation. “To me it’s pretty blatant, and frankly, jaw-dropping,” said Sortino, who added that Kelly had basically slapped him in the face after he granted her probation.

Last year, Toi-Lin Kelly was indicted by a grand jury for selling the hit-and-run video to TMZ for $55,000. A Los Angeles judge sentenced Ms. Kelly to 100 hours of community service and serve five years on probation.

During the hearing, Kelly broke down in tears while reading a letter to the court, calling her arrests in relation to Knight’s case a “humbling” and “humiliating” experience. She pleaded with Judge Sortino to think about her 8-year-old son, who will be without both parents if she and Knight remain incarcerated. Kelly also said her father died of cancer shortly before she was arrested on the probation violation in December.

Kelly’s attorney, James Drake, argued that the prosecution was trying to punish Kelly for Knight’s alleged crimes. But Judge Sortino wasn’t buying it.

“I was born at night, but not last night, Mrs. Kelly,” he said.

Meanwhile Knight is in jail awaiting his murder trial, which is set to begin in April.

The sentencing is the latest blow to Knight’s inner circle. Last week, two attorneys who have represented Knight at various stages of his criminal proceedings were arrested, but then suddenly released.

The latest case against Kelly began in October after investigators with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department learned Knight had been communicating with two journalists from jail.

Knight is barred from making jailhouse calls to anyone but his attorneys under a 2016 court order, but he was using other inmates’ phone codes to place the calls, according to testimony Friday by sheriff’s Sgt. Richard Biddle.

Text messages presented in court showed Kelly had been placing money in those inmates’ jail accounts, and prosecutors argued the money was provided to help Knight make the phone calls. Prosecutors also showed emails between Kelly and one of the filmmakers in which Kelly advised them on how to contact Knight.

Sortino also ruled that text messages between Kelly and Tony Moore, a private investigator who has been aiding Knight’s defense, were meant to relay information between Kelly and Knight. She was barred from speaking to Knight as part of the plea agreement reached last year