Voletta Wallace, the mom of The Infamous B.I.G., has died on the age of 78.
The information was reported on Friday (February 21) by TMZ, after Monroe County Coroner Thomas Yanac introduced that she had handed away from pure causes in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, the place she had been receiving hospice care.
Wallace had been instrumental in carrying on her son’s legacy and overseeing his property, following his homicide on the age of 24 on March 9, 1997. She established the Christopher Wallace Memorial Basis and was a producer on the 2009 biopic Infamous, directed by George Tillman Jr. and starring Jamal Woolard. She was portrayed by Angela Bassett within the movie.
Born on February 3, 1953 and raised in Jamaica, Wallace moved to Brooklyn and labored as a preschool instructor. Biggie Smalls, born Christopher George Latore Wallace, was her solely little one, born on Could 21, 1972. His father Selwyn George Latore left the household simply earlier than Christohper turned three years outdated, with Voletta left to lift him as a single mom.
She later printed her memoir Biggie in 2005, and in 2021 she labored as an govt producer on the Netflix documentary Biggie: I Acquired A Story To Inform. When selling that movie, she advised the Related Press: “They by no means knew me. The general public by no means knew me. I used to be thrust into this surroundings, I ought to say, after he handed away, as a result of I’m a really personal particular person. Extraordinarily personal.”
“What he was doing on the market, possibly I ought to have recognized. However actually, I didn’t. And to at the present time, there are people who find themselves saying, ’Oh, she knew. [whispers] However I by no means knew.”
She spoke of her pleasure at Biggie’s induction into the Rock & Roll Corridor Of Fame in 2020. “Brooklyn we did it!!! That is so lengthy overdue,” she wrote. “Thanks to everybody that helped make this occur for Christopher. Love you all.”
Wallace additionally was outspoken concerning the allegations towards Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs in 2024, telling Rolling Stone: “I’m sick to my abdomen. I’m praying for his mom. I don’t wish to imagine the issues that I’ve heard, however I’ve seen [the video]. I pray that he apologises to her.”
