# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cathy-scott
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:35:28.289Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cathy-scott"
name: "Cathy Scott"
slug: "cathy-scott"
description: "Cathleen Scott is a Los Angeles Times and New York Times bestselling American true crime author and investigative journalist who penned the biographies and true crime books The Killing of Tupac Shakur and The Murder of Biggie Smalls, both bestsellers in the United States and United Kingdom, and was the first to report Shakur's death. She grew up in La Mesa, California, and later moved to Mission Beach, California, where she was a single parent to a son, Raymond Somers Jr. Her hip-hop books are based on the drive-by shootings that killed the rappers six months apart in the midst of what has been called the West Coast-East Coast war. Each book is dedicated to the rappers' mothers. She is currently writing a biography of the late true crime author Ann Rule."
tagline: "American journalist"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1949-02-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.98
  momentum:             2.393617021276595
  historical:           5.964761333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/CathyScott"
    handle:    "CathyScott"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1025638/"
    handle:    "nm1025638"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.cathyscott.com/"
sources:
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    title: "کیتھی سکاٹ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AB%D9%8A_%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%88%D8%AA"
    title: "كاثي سكوت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AB%D9%89_%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%88%D8%AA"
    title: "كاثى سكوت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%AA%DB%8C_%D8%A7%D8%B3%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%AA"
    title: "کتی اسکات"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathy_Scott"
    title: "Cathy Scott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathy_Scott"
    title: "Cathy Scott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3663596"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1536839"
    title: "Cathy Scott"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump