Diddy issues mount as Tupac's family investigates alleged link to death, hires Alec Baldwin's 'Rust' lawyer

The household of the precocious rapper Tupac Shakur has hired a salient New York lawyer to analyse alleged links betwixt his decease and Sean "Diddy" Combs, Fox News Digital has confirmed. 

Alex Spiro, a 41-year-old, Harvard-trained attorney, helped "Rust" histrion Alec Baldwin unafraid a ineligible triumph successful his involuntary manslaughter case. Baldwin was charged with manslaughter successful 2021, aft his on-set shooting led to the tragic decease of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Shakur’s household has hired Spiro, who has a roster of Hollywood clients, to analyse whether Combs had immoderate engagement with the precocious rapper’s decease astir 30 years ago.

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Tupac Shakur's household has hired lawyer Alex Spiro to analyse alleged links betwixt Sean "Diddy" Combs and the execution of the precocious rapper. (Getty Images)

Shakur was fatally changeable successful a drive-by shooting connected Sept. 7, 1996. The rapper was riding shotgun successful Death Row Records co-founder Marion "Suge" Knight's achromatic BMW erstwhile a achromatic Cadillac pulled up alongside them portion they were stopped astatine a postulation light. Knight was successful the car with Shakur erstwhile they were attacked successful Las Vegas. 

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Alex Spiro helped Alec Baldwin unafraid a ineligible triumph successful his involuntary manslaughter case. (Getty Images)

Industry legends Shakur and Notorious B.I.G., a Bad Boy artist, some died successful drive-by shootings.

Biggie, whose existent sanction was Christopher Wallace, died successful the arms of 1 of Combs' bodyguards. 

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The precocious Tupac Shakur and Marion "Suge" Knight were pictured successful 1996.  (Jeff Kravitz)

The cases prompted speculation and conspiracy theories for much than a decade. Police successful Las Vegas yet announced an indictment successful Shakur's execution past year.

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Duane "Keefe D" Davis arrives successful a Las Vegas tribunal connected October 19, 2023, for his arraignment connected execution charges successful the decease of rapper Tupac Shakur. (John Lochner/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)

Last September, Duane "Keffe D" Davis was indicted connected the complaint of unfastened execution with usage of a deadly limb on with a pack enhancement, prosecutors revealed during a property conference. In 2018, Davis made media statements that "reinvigorated" the investigation, constabulary said astatine the time.

In 2008, Combs denied a study by the Los Angeles Times that his associates were liable for the 1994 robbery and shooting of Shakur astatine a New York signaling studio, oregon that helium had known astir the onslaught successful advance.

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On Sept. 16, Combs was arrested and charged with racketeering conspiracy; enactment trafficking by force, fraud oregon coercion; and proscription to prosecute successful prostitution.  (Munawar Hosain)

"The communicative is simply a lie," the hip-hop mogul said successful a connection astatine the time. "It is beyond ridiculous and wholly false. Neither (the precocious rapper Notorious B.I.G.) nor I had immoderate cognition of immoderate onslaught before, during oregon aft it happened. . . . I americium shocked that the Los Angeles Times would beryllium truthful irresponsible arsenic to people specified a baseless and wholly untrue story."

The 1994 shooting triggered the celebrated feud betwixt East and West Coast rappers that led to the killings of Shakur and B.I.G.

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The quality of Shakur’s household hiring New York lawyer Spiro comes arsenic Combs is faced with a slew of charges and is presently successful jail.

On September 16, Combs was arrested and charged with racketeering conspiracy; enactment trafficking by force, fraud oregon coercion; and proscription to prosecute successful prostitution. He faces a minimum of 15 years down bars and a maximum condemnation of beingness successful situation if recovered guilty.

Fox News Digital's Lauryn Overhultz and Michael Ruiz contributed to this report.