Diddy Says He Wasn’t Party to It

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The Los Angeles Times has Diddy fuming. Apparently, the Times article tie Combs to the beat down Tupac got back in 1994, at the start of the big East Coast- West Coast blow out. The Times article says that Diddy (then called Puff Daddy) knew that Tupac was going to be ambushed and beaten up.

The hip-hop mogul issued a pointed statement Monday denying the details in a web-exclusive Los Angeles Times report tying him, via interviews and FBI records, to the 1994 beating and shooting attack on Tupac Shakur at a New York recording studio.

“The story is a lie. It is beyond ridiculous and completely false,” Combs said in response to the article by staff writer Chuck Philips, who reported on “newly discovered information” implicating two former Combs associates—talent manager James Rosemond and promoter James Sabatino—in the assault.

[...]In a post-publication statement, however, Rosemond called the report “a libelous piece of garbage.”

“In the past 14 years, I have not even been questioned by law enforcement with regard to the assault of Tupac Shakur, let alone brought up on charges,” he said. “Chuck Philips, the writer…has reached a new low by employing fourth-hand information from desperate jailhouse informants along with ancient FBI reports to create this fabrication. I simply ask for all rap fans and fans of Tupac to analyze this fiction for what it is.”

The people who are believed to be responsible for the Tupac beating were never charged and are currently incarcerated for other, unrelated charges. The murders of Tupac and Biggie Smalls remain unsolved.

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