Hip hop mogul Chris Lighty, the longtime manager of 50 Cent, Diddy, Ja Rule, LL Cool J and Mariah Carey through his Violator Management company, was found dead yesterday morning in NYC from what appears to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, Law enforcement sources say. According to law enforcement, 44-year-old Lighty’s body was found by police around 11:30 AM in the backyard of his Bronx apartment. Lighty was pronounced dead on the scene, where a semi-automatic firearm was recovered.The death is being investigated as a possible suicide. According to sources close to Lighty, the hip hop mogul had been in an argument with his ex-wife and shot himself in the head. We’re told the couple got divorced last year and Lighty hadn’t been the same since.
