# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/russell-poole
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:33:48.431Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/russell-poole"
name: "Russell Poole"
slug: "russell-poole"
description: "Russell Wayne Poole was a Los Angeles Police Department detective who investigated the murder of the Notorious B.I.G., a rapper also known as Biggie Smalls. Poole also investigated the killing of LAPD Officer Kevin Gaines by LAPD Officer Frank Lyga on March 18, 1997. After retiring in 1999, he formed a private detective agency."
tagline: "American police officer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1956-11-29"
deathDate: "2015-08-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.46
  momentum:             3.683216405828386
  historical:           7.382556
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1242789/"
    handle:    "nm1242789"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%84_%D9%BE%D9%88%D9%84"
    title: "رسل پول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84"
    title: "راسيل بول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Poole"
    title: "Russell Poole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Poole"
    title: "Russell Poole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%84_%D9%BE%D9%88%D9%84"
    title: "راسل پول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Poole"
    title: "Russell Poole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Poole"
    title: "Russell Poole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3942887"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1192716"
    title: "Russell Poole"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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