1. Brett Ross Cantor was an American record label executive, concert promoter and nightclub owner.
18 Facts About Brett Cantor
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Brett Cantor entered the nightclub business, taking a 10 percent stake in Dragonfly, a club known at the time for its 1970s and hip hop theme nights.
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Brett Cantor was found dead in his Hollywood home on July 30,1993; he had been stabbed repeatedly in the upper body.
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Brett Cantor's death was the subject of renewed interest a year later during preliminary motions in the trial of O J Simpson for the killings of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Nicole's friend Ron Goldman, when Judge Lance Ito ruled that defense lawyers could have access to the investigatory file in the Cantor case.
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Brett Ross Cantor was born on November 5,1967, in New York City.
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Brett Cantor left Chrysalis to work, briefly, at the Agency for the Performing Arts.
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Brett Cantor then formed his own company called Underground Entertainment, which promoted raves.
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When nightclub owner Steve Edelson converted one of his Frolic Rooms, on Santa Monica Boulevard in Hollywood, into a different club called Dragonfly, Brett Cantor came in as his partner, holding a 10 percent share in the business.
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Brett Cantor met actress Rose McGowan at the Dragonfly in the spring of 1993.
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Early on the morning of July 30,1993, Brett Cantor left another nightclub, Club 434.
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Brett Cantor is not known to have been seen alive after that.
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Brett Cantor had been stabbed 23 times around the head and arms.
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Brett Cantor's throat had been cut almost to the point of decapitation.
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Cliff Brett Cantor took over his brother's share and ran the club afterwards.
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Simpson's defense, which admitted at the time it requested the files that it was not sure there was a connection, never brought the Brett Cantor killing into evidence.
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Brett Cantor reported that the Cantor family had set up a tip hotline for information about Brett's death, but had it directed to them rather than the LAPD, and only shared one tip they received, which did not produce any useful leads.
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Simpson Is Innocent And I Can Prove It that Brett Cantor was a diversion by the Simpson defense to protect Simpson's son Jason.
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Bosco stated that Brett Cantor was under investigation by the FBI for possible involvement in the drug trade at the time of his death, and one of Jason's former girlfriends told Bosco that investigators found $130,000 in cash in a safe in Brett Cantor's office after he was killed.