Lamont Bentley
Lamont Bentley ( born October 25, 1973 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin as Artimus Lamont Bentley, † 19 January 2005 ) was an American actor and rapper.
Career
Bentley was born Artimus Lamont Bentley in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, but grew up in Los Angeles, his mother Loyce in Hollywood tried to boost her career as a singer. Bentley started his career as a child actor by starred in commercials and as a guest actor in TV series before it, inter alia, Jennifer Lopez and Shar Jackson participated a role in the short-lived sitcom South Central, in which, landed in 1994.
Ralph Farquhar, the Creator of South Central committed Bentley as the main role in the sitcom Moesha, which aired for six seasons on UPN. After the end of Moesha Bentley first started to work as a rapper and in 2001 was C- Money as the next Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg in the hip-hop film The Wash on. In the same year he played the rapper Tupac Shakur in, made-for- television biopic MC Hammer Too Legit: The MC Hammer Story.
Death
On the morning of 19 January 2005, Bentley died in a car accident south of California's Ventura County. He was driving on the Highway 118 freeway near the Simi Valley ( about 47 km north- west of Los Angeles ) when his vehicle at high speed ran off the road and rolled down an embankment. This Bentley was thrown from the car and flew onto a roadway, where he was run over by five different cars and succumbed to his fatal injuries. He is survived by his two daughters, Artesia and Brazil.