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Revolving Door Newsletter: 04.12.05

The Source gets slapped with a sexual-harassment suit, "Press Clips" changes hands after just six months, and Al Goldstein continues to move effortlessly between the worlds of cold cuts and porn

April 12, 2005
What happens when you cross the most histrionic behavior of magazine editors with the most cartoonishly "thug-like" of rappers? Why, you get The Source, of course. The godfather of hip-hop magazines may be best known for its ludicrous beef with Eminem, but in publishing circles, The Source is infamous as one of the most dysfunctional magazines around, thanks in large part to co-owner/chief brand manager Raymond "Benzino" Scott, who shocked his colleagues by quitting on Friday, and then shocked them again yesterday by announcing he was staying put. Scott, who happens to be a rapper himself,...

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