Diddy‘s authorized woes proceed to mount. Eight months after ex Cassie Ventura sued the Dangerous Boy Data mogul for sexual assault and abuse, inflicting a cascade of lawsuits to comply with, the embattled rapper is being implicated within the 1996 homicide of Tupac Shakur.
Whereas many have lengthy suspected he’s been concerned, Diddy has maintained his innocence. However based on the U.S. Solar, new courtroom paperwork reveal Diddy is accused of paying $1 million for Shakur’s assassination by suspect Duane “Keefe D” Davis, who was arrested for the homicide final 12 months. Nevertheless, it’s nonetheless unknown if Diddy can be subpoenaed or indicted as a part of the case.
In papers filed on Thursday (July 18), Diddy is called 77 instances by his varied pseudonyms: Puffy, Puff Daddy, Puff and his authorities identify, Sean Combs. He’s first talked about as prosecutors defined the “lethal rivalry” that existed between Dangerous Boy Data on the East Coast and Demise Row Data on the West Coast, headed up by Marion “Suge” Knight, previous to Shakur’s capturing.
The docs allege that after the capturing, Davis flew to New York with a Los Angeles police process drive to go undercover in an effort to assemble incriminating proof in opposition to Diddy and Eric “Zip” Martin over the homicide.
“Process Pressure Detectives believed they’d jurisdiction to research a Nevada murder as a result of Defendant asserted that the conspiracy to commit the homicide started in California between Defendant, Eric ‘Zip’ Martin, and Sean Combs,” the docs learn partially. “Defendant [Keefe] has asserted publicly that he solely informed on himself and wasn’t making an attempt to supply proof in opposition to anybody else in his conversations with police. Nevertheless, this assertion belies this declare, as he urged that Sean Combs paid Eric Von Martin one million {dollars} for the killings.”
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In one of many transcripts, Davis reportedly alleges he and a number of the South Facet Crips have been “associates” with Diddy, who needed Knight and Shakur useless. He additionally claims the Crips drove by Shakur and Knight in Las Vegas after a Mike Tyson struggle “unintentionally” and his nephew, Orlando “Child Lane” Anderson, shot at them each.
Police requested Davis, “Puffy Combs….Does he play a job on this factor?…” and Davis replied, “Yeah, I feel he did.” Davis stated Diddy informed him and a gaggle of about 45 individuals how he “would give something” for Knight’s “head” as a result of he was “scared” of him and likewise had an issue with Shakur after he had launched a diss monitor about him.
In the identical transcript, Davis says Diddy was mentioned the night time of the capturing, with Davis saying, “I knew we was like rattling, we are able to receives a commission now.”
Police requested, “Once you stated paid, paid by Puffy, proper?” to which Davis replied, “Yeah,” based on the courtroom paperwork. Davis concluded, “I want I by no means met Puff Daddy, interval. I swear to God…He tousled my life, man. I used to be, I used to be wealthy, up underneath the radar, all that, man…it’s all gone.”
Prosecutors filed the docs in a bid to oppose Davis’ newest bail request. His $112,500 bail bond was rejected final month over issues in regards to the supply of the cash—Wack 100— and whether or not he and Davis try to promote his life story to TV producers.
