A Los Angeles music producer testified that gang members kidnapped him in 2008 and told him the reason was an "issue" with basketball star Shaquille O'Neal and his business partner, according to transcripts from a preliminary criminal hearing.
In the transcripts, producer Robert Ross — who has claimed the attack came because he said he had a sex tape featuring O'Neal — testified that his kidnappers beat him and demanded a "videotape."
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LOS ANGELES -- A Los Angeles music producer confirmed last week in a preliminary criminal hearing that at one point he had a tape from his home security system of Shaquille O'Neal having sex with a woman, but that it had been recorded over.
Asked by a prosecutor if he really had such a video at the time of an alleged attack and kidnapping, Robert Ross replied: "It was over. It was gone."
James Harbin, told him he needed to clear up an "issue" with O'Neal and Stevens, and threatened him.
Ross' testimony is scheduled to continue on July 6.
O'Neal and business partner Mark Stevens have denied involvement in statements to investigators. Neither O'Neal nor Stevens has been charged or named in the criminal complaint.
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