Combs has been accused by the man currently being prosecuted for the murder – gangster Duane “Keefe D” Davis – of paying $1 million for Tupac’s assassination, according to the latest court papers obtained by The U.S. Sun.
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Tupac Shakur was fatally shot at age 25 in 1996Credit: Getty – Contributor
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Diddy has been accused of orchestrating the drive-by shooting by suspect Keefe DCredit: Getty
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Keefe is charged with the murder of Tupac and will face trial in NovemberCredit: AFP
It is not yet known if Diddy will be subpoenaed or indicted as part of the murder case as prosecutors hope to finally obtain justice for the iconic rapper, who was gunned down in Las Vegas 27 years ago on September 7, 1996.
The U.S. Sun has reached out to the Clark County District Attorney’s Office for comment on Combs’ alleged involvement in the case.
It is the latest legal headache for Combs, whose houses were raided in March as part of a federal sex trafficking investigation.
Diddy also faces multiple lawsuits from women accusing him of sexual assault and sex trafficking. He has denied all allegations.
Combs previously stated he had nothing to do with Pac’s murder – but his representatives did not comment on the latest Tupac filing when approached by The U.S. Sun.
In papers filed on Thursday, Combs is named 77 times by his various pseudonyms including Puffy, Puff Daddy, Puff, and his real name Sean Combs.
He is first mentioned as prosecutors explain the “deadly rivalry” that existed between Combs’ Bad Boy Records on the East Coast and Death Row Records on the West Coast, headed up by Marion “Suge” Knight, leading up to Pac’s shooting.
The documents allege that after the shooting, suspect Keefe flew to New York with a Los Angeles police task force to pose undercover and try to gather incriminating evidence against Combs and another gangster Eric “Zip” Martin over the murder.
The documents state, “Task Force Detectives believed they had jurisdiction to investigate a Nevada homicide because Defendant asserted that the conspiracy to commit the murder began in California between Defendant, Eric ‘Zip’ Martin, and Sean Combs.”
Combs is mentioned again when prosecutors allege, “Defendant [Keefe] has asserted publicly that he only told on himself and wasn’t trying to provide evidence against anyone else in his conversations with police
“However, this statement belies this claim, as he suggested that Sean Combs paid Eric Von Martin a million dollars for the killings.”
The documents include transcripts and summaries of various police and media interviews given by Keefe before his arrest last year in which he repeats allegations about Combs’s involvement in the murder.
In one summary of a YouTube interview, prosecutors say, “When Sean Combs reaches out to Defendant wondering if South Side Crips were responsible for Shakur’s death by asking, ‘Is that us?’ Defendant, beaming with pride, answers, ‘Yes.'”
Combs is then named multiple times as part of a transcript of a “Surreptitiously Recorded Interview” with Keefe carried out by Las Vegas Metropolitan Police in 2009, and included in the 179-page filing.
In the transcript, Keefe alleges he and his gang of South Side Crips were “friends” with Combs and the hip-hop mogul wanted Knight and Tupac dead.
He then claims his gangster pals drove by Tupac and Knight in Las Vegas after a Mike Tyson fight “accidentally” and his nephew Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson shot at them both.
6Tupac and Suge pictured in the car before the shootingCredit: Grand Jury Las Vegas exhibits courtesy of JDMC
6The bullet-riddled car in which Tupac and Suge were shotCredit: AP
6Diddy is mentioned 77 times in these court documentsCredit: District Court Clark County, NV
Police asked Keefe, “Puffy Combs….Does he play a role in this thing?…” and Keefe replied, “Yeah, I think he did.”Keefe added that Combs told him and a group of about 45 people how he “would give anything” for Knight’s “head” because he was “scared” of him and also had a problem with Tupac after he had released a diss track about him.
In the same transcript, Keefe also alleges that Combs was discussed the night of the shooting, with Keefe saying, “I knew we was like damn, we can get paid now.”
‘PAID BY PUFFY’
Police asked, “When you said paid, paid by Puffy, right?” Keefe replied, “Yeah,” according to the court documents.
Keefe goes on to claim to cops that Combs paid the money due for the Tupac hit to Zip – and didn’t return his calls when he tried to ask for the money to be paid to him instead.
He then expresses regret that Tupac was dead, and adds, “I wish I never met Puff Daddy, period. I swear to God…He messed up my life, man. I was, I was rich, up under the radar, all that, man…it’s all gone.”
The document was filed by prosecutors in a bid to oppose Keefe’s bail request.
Keefe’s $112,500 bail bond was rejected last month over concerns about the source of the money – music producer Cash “Wack 100” Jones – and whether he and Keefe had been discussing selling the gangster’s life story to TV producers.
A bail reconsideration hearing in the case will take place on Tuesday.
Keefe’s lawyer Carl Arnold has not yet commented on the latest filing by the prosecution.
But previously he had told The U.S. Sun that he was optimistic Keefe would be freed at his next hearing – and stated that the former gangster should be allowed to make money from TV and movie deals before his trial in November.
The U.S. Sun first reported allegations that Diddy paid $1 million to have Tupac murdered last October and then exclusively released an explosive audio tape of Keefe’s claims earlier this year.
