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(NewsNation) — The antheral charged successful rapper Tupac Shakur’s 1996 sidesplitting claimed Sean “Diddy” Combs allegedly offered up $1 cardinal for the hep hop legend’s murder.
Court papers filed past week successful a Nevada tribunal successful the lawsuit against Duane “Keefe D” Davis, the erstwhile Los Angeles-area pack person accused of orchestrating Shakur’s killing, see respective interviews instrumentality enforcement took of Davis successful the past 2 decades.
Prosecutors included a transcript of a "Surreptitiously Recorded Interview" with Davis carried retired by Las Vegas Metropolitan Police successful 2009 on with respective different media interviews wherever helium repeated his years-long claims astir Combs’ alleged transportation to Shakur’s murder.
Davis had made allegations against Combs for much than 15 years, but the euphony mogul has not been named successful immoderate probe connected to Shakur’s killing.
An lawyer for Combs did not instrumentality a petition for remark by NewsNation.
Combs has denied immoderate engagement successful erstwhile statements saying the “story is beyond ridiculous and wholly false," successful a 2008 interrogation with AllHipHop.com.
He does look a antithetic mounting list of civilian lawsuits that allege maltreatment and sexual battle by aggregate victims spanning implicit 30 years and has been notified by national authorities that helium is the taxable of an ongoing transgression investigation.
Shakur's household has reportedly hired a ineligible squad to look into the resurfaced allegations implicating Combs successful the precocious rapper's killing, according to TMZ.
Shakur, 25, died successful September 1996, 1 week aft being changeable successful Las Vegas portion driving successful a car with Marion "Suge" Knight, who owned the grounds statement Death Row Records with which helium was signed.
Keefe D's claims astir Diddy, Tupac and 'Suge' Knight
Davis discusses Combs aggregate times successful narration to Shakur’s sidesplitting successful the transcript from his 2009 interrogation conducted by undercover police.
“Does helium (Combs) play a relation successful this thing?” Davis is asked by constabulary who are referring to Shakur’s murder.
He answers, “Yes… Yeah, I deliberation helium did.”
Davis claims Combs allegedly was acrophobic of "Suge" Knight who owned a rival grounds label. He besides stated Diddy disliked Shakur due to the fact that the rapper called him retired connected his songs.
FILE - Duane "Keffe D" Davis, who is accused of orchestrating the 1996 slaying of hip-hop icon Tupac Shakur, is led into the courtroom during a presumption proceeding astatine the Regional Justice Center, connected Tuesday, April 23, 2024, successful Las Vegas. Davis volition inquire a justice adjacent week connected June 24, to fto him retired of jailhouse pending proceedings connected a execution charge. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)
FILE - Rapper Tupac Shakur, left, and Death Row Records Chairman Marion "Suge" Knight, be a elector registration lawsuit successful South Central Los Angeles, August 15, 1996. Shakur's shooting successful a New York signaling workplace successful the mid-1990s sparked hip-hop's biggest rivalry and led to the shocking deaths of 2 of the genre's top stars. Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. were gunned down successful drive-by shootings lone six months apart. Nearly 3 decades later, the caller apprehension of longtime fishy Duane “Keffe D” Davis has ignited different question of intrigue successful their unsolved murders. (AP Photo/Frank Wiese, File)
A booking photograph of Duane "Keefe D" Davis is shown connected a tv show arsenic Clark County Sheriff Kevin McMahill (L) and Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Jason Johansson talk during a quality league astatine the LVMPD office to little media members connected Davis' apprehension and indictment for the 1996 execution of Tupac Shakur connected September 29, 2023 successful Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
Combs allegedly made a telephone connected Knight’s “head” astatine a edifice country successful beforehand of much than 40 people, Davis claims saying, “He was kinda frightened of the feline — helium — we was astatine a edifice and he, similar man, ah, I would springiness thing for that dude's head.”
Knight is presently serving a 28-year condemnation connected to the decease of businessman Terry Carter successful an unrelated California case.
Davis besides claimed Combs hated Shakur and believed helium deserved to person thing done to him for “starting” the full rivalry.
Combs allegedly said “f— that dude, ah, yeah, and didn't helium deliberation we got to person thing done, aft each this s– started,” according to Davis.
Davis’ lawyer did not instrumentality a petition for remark by NewsNation.
Despite Davis’ resurfaced claims, determination is apt nary grounds linking Combs to Shakur's death, Katie Cherkasky, a transgression defence lawyer and erstwhile national prosecutor, told NewsNation.
“It sounds benignant of similar thing that was ne'er substantiated with evidence,” she said. “There wouldn't beryllium immoderate crushed for the feds to hold successful bringing an indictment oregon bringing the accusation to a expansive assemblage earlier if they believed that determination was credible accusation and helium was connected to that.”
However, Cherkasky adds, "There’s not specifically a statute of limitations contented connected the charges, and truthful if determination was caller accusation that had go available, past surely they could look into it."
Keefe D claims Diddy ne'er paid him for the killing
Davis claims that helium did not mean to spell aft Shakur and Knight the nighttime of the 1996 sidesplitting but that the accidental presented itself erstwhile they saw the 2 successful a car, tribunal documents stated.
That’s erstwhile his nephew Orlando "Baby Lane" Anderson allegedly changeable astatine them both, Davis said. Anderson was killed successful an unrelated shooting two years later.
Davis claimed Combs allegedly paid the wealth for the deed connected Tupac to Eric “Von Zip'' Martin, different antheral successful the car with him.
Davis referred to Martin successful the transcript arsenic “one of Puffy’s boys,” meaning helium was associated with Combs.
FILE -Sean 'Diddy' Combs participates successful "The Four" sheet during the FOX Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour successful Pasadena, Calif., Jan. 4, 2018. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)“You deliberation during that clip play Zip got paid…by Puffy,” constabulary asked, to which Davis answered “Yeah.”
In the document, prosecutors enactment that "defendant has asserted publically that helium lone told connected himself and wasn’t trying to supply grounds against anyone other successful his conversations with police. However, this connection belies this claim, arsenic helium suggested that Sean Combs paid Eric Von Martin a cardinal dollars for the killings arsenic good arsenic offered to acceptable up a surreptitious telephone telephone with Terrence Brown, the driver, who, astatine the time, was inactive alive."
Davis besides claimed helium tried to get wealth from Martin and Combs but that some avoided him for years and that yet helium ne'er received thing for Shakur’s murder.
In the transcript, Davis said the full incidental ruined his life.
“I privation I ne'er met Puff Daddy, period. I curse to God. He messed up my life, man. I was, I was rich, up nether the radar, “ helium said.
“It’s each gone.”
