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TUPAC Shakur execution fishy Keefe D lied to constabulary astir Sean "Diddy" Combs offering $1 cardinal for the deed and volition not assistance national authorities with the case, his lawyer has present claimed.
Keefe D volition not talk with New York Southern District investigators, who are engaged successful an tremendous US-wide probe of perchance amerciable activities of Combs.
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Incredibly, Keefe antecedently publically boasted successful a police interview and media chats that Combs offered him $1 cardinal to exterminate Tupac and of his efforts to cod the bounty.
However, the self-confessed ”Godfather Of Compton” has present assured household and friends that helium volition not sermon immoderate Combs matters with authorities.
NYC investigators person been collaborating with the Clark County District Attorney's bureau successful Nevada - wherever Keefe is successful custody - implicit immoderate grounds linking Combs to Tupac’s murder.
Keefe, straight and done his lawyer Carl Arnold, has present declared helium volition not assistance successful that facet of the investigation.
Arnold confirmed to The U.S. Sun that Keefe is “not astatine all” speaking with authorities.
And Arnold added of his ain client’s past allegations that Combs tabled the life-changing sum for the execution of his 1990s grounds statement rival: “No 1 has ever been capable to beryllium that helium wanted Tupac killed and was consenting to wage for it.”
When asked astir Keefe’s assertion during a 2008 taped constabulary interrogation that Combs, who partied with him, outlined the $1 cardinal termination offer, Arnold deed back: “Keefe lied.”
Hip-hop mogul Combs has pleaded not blameworthy to national charges of racketeering, sex trafficking by force, and proscription to prosecute successful prostitution.
Arnold asserted that Combs, too, had nary engagement successful Tupac’s 1996 execution oregon accusation astir his ain client.
Arnold reacted: “[He] is going to prison for life. If helium has that accusation I americium definite helium would’ve fixed it up present to prevention his skin.”
Moment Tupac Shakur execution fishy Keefe D erupts successful courtroom rant implicit confession grounds successful aggravated bail hearing
A family person of Keefe besides outlined that helium is not cooperating with immoderate NYC probe connected Combs.
They told The U.S Sun: “Keefe ain’t saying s*** to immoderate of the agents astir Diddy.
“They person thing to connection him, and helium inactive maintains helium ain’t nary snitch."
Arnold maintains that his lawsuit volition locomotion escaped aft the March proceedings insisting that prosecutors inactive “have nary proof” that Keefe was successful Las Vegas connected the nighttime of Tupac's death.
Arnold says that helium hopes Keefe volition beryllium granted bail if “his household tin get the funds unneurotic ... arsenic yet, they haven’t managed that.”
Why it’s taken truthful agelong for justness successful the Tupac Shakur case
By The Sun's Senior Reporter Emma Parry, who has been reporting connected the Tupac execution for the past 10 years
TUPAC fans person been waiting for justness for the iconic rapper for astir 28 years.
Finally successful September 2023 determination appeared to beryllium advancement with the apprehension of Duane "Keefe D" Davis - a erstwhile Southside Crip gangster from Compton, LA - who had been telling the satellite for years that helium and his chap "gang soldiers" were liable for the hit.
I've been reporting connected the lawsuit for respective years and it ever appeared beauteous chopped and dry...Keefe had spent the past decennary gaining notoriety by boasting astir his alleged engagement successful the shooting - present helium was yet getting what helium deserves. But contempt Keefe moving his rima for years, I present judge a guilty verdict successful November's proceedings is acold from guaranteed.
Keefe describes successful large item successful his memoir Compton Street Legend what went down the nighttime Pac was shot, extracts from which The U.S. Sun has published.
He claimed that helium was offered a cardinal dollars by rapper Diddy to "handle" Tupac and Suge Knight and erstwhile helium and his Crip gangsters came crossed the brace driving adjacent the Strip successful Las Vegas connected September 7, 1996, Keefe alleged helium passed the weapon to his nephew Orlando "Baby Lane" Anderson who took the shot. Keefe said if Pac had been connected his side: "I would person blast".
Keefe repeated the claims aggregate times implicit the years, connected YouTube channels, documentaries, and adjacent successful taped confessions to police, erstwhile helium believed helium could not beryllium prosecuted. In 1 confession to the LAPD, Keefe appeared completely remorseless telling detectives: “We didn’t springiness a f**k...The ambulance [for Tupac] was parked close present adjacent to us. That s**t was arsenic comic arsenic a motherf**ker.”
The Sun has been publishing stories astir Keefe's aforesaid confessed engagement in the transgression since 2018.
I sent galore links to his confessions to Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, asking them wherefore this antheral had not been arrested yet. They would convey maine for the info but accidental that they could not remark due to the fact that the lawsuit was inactive active. From the outside, it looked similar nary enactment was being taken astatine all.
We spoke to erstwhile detectives progressive successful the lawsuit and documentary makers who each felt utterly frustrated astatine the lack of advancement successful the case. We adjacent published a plea from erstwhile LAPD detective Greg Kading, who had probed the murders, urging Las Vegas cops to apprehension Keefe, backmost successful 2020.
For years, the lawsuit appeared to person been forgotten and ignored, to beryllium near everlastingly unsolved.
But finally, successful the summertime of 2023, we got connection from our sources that determination had been a immense improvement successful the case. A concealed expansive assemblage was owed to beryllium held connected whether oregon not Keefe should beryllium indicted. I was dubious astatine archetypal but astir the aforesaid clip a location successful Henderson, Nevada, linked to Keefe, was raided successful July arsenic portion of the Tupac investigation.
Things were heating up.
Later that summer, behind closed doors, jurors listened to hours of grounds from erstwhile cops, detectives, and coroners progressive successful the Tupac lawsuit and gangsters and associates of Keefe's and Pac's from backmost successful the day. They were shown graphic photos of Tupac's bullet-ridden body. After days of evidence, they decided determination was capable grounds to prosecute Keefe.
Once the concealed documents were released I poured implicit the transcripts. While interesting, galore of the witnesses were telling stories they'd heard second-hand. None of the prosecution witnesses had a wide look astatine who changeable Pac. One witnesser Devonta Lee claimed different gangster called Big Dre took the changeable - not Orlando. Maybe things weren't arsenic clear-cut arsenic I archetypal thought.
Keefe was past arrested connected September 30, 2023 astatine his home. Bodycam footage we obtained from the country showed Keefe bragging to cops adjacent arsenic helium was handcuffed successful the backmost of a constabulary car - telling officers he was progressive successful the "biggest lawsuit successful Las Vegas history".
Following Keefe's aggregate appearances successful court, helium seems to person mislaid overmuch of that bravado and present cuts a sad, lonely figure.
Suffering from assorted wellness problems arsenic a effect of cancer, he's struggling to header with the brutalities of jailhouse beingness and can't get unneurotic capable wealth to spend his bail. He feels immoderate of his aged Southside Crip associates - men helium handed wads of currency to successful his glory days, person conscionable abandoned him.
Keefe is present hopeless to get out of jail, and his defence stems is leaning connected his assertion that helium completely made up his involvement successful the Tupac execution for fame and money. He saw different radical cashing successful connected the execution truthful helium thought helium would too. He reckons his confessions to constabulary were each lies - helium made it up due to the fact that he was nether a plea woody and thought it would assistance him bushed his different charges.
And, according to his lawyer Carl Arnold, helium wasn't adjacent successful Las Vegas connected the nighttime of the shooting. Arnold remains convinced helium volition spot his lawsuit locomotion escaped and their concealed limb could beryllium erstwhile Death Row Records brag Suge.
As the lone different idiosyncratic inactive live from either car, Suge, presently successful situation for a fatal deed and run, would beryllium a cardinal witness. Suge is the lone idiosyncratic inactive live who knows what went down - helium saw the shooter. While he's said helium won't attest astatine the November trial, Suge has claimed successful a TMZ interrogation from prison that Orlando was not the shooter, which again throws into uncertainty Keefe's mentation of events.
Keefe and his lawyer are hoping they mightiness beryllium capable to alteration his caput and transportation him to attest for the defense. And Suge holds the powerfulness to stroke the prosecution's lawsuit apart.
And if Keefe walks free, volition determination ever beryllium justness for Pac?
The U.S. Sun revealed archetypal however Vegas instrumentality enforcement is liaising with investigators successful the Combs case.
Combs, 54, is successful protective custody, accused of moving a transgression endeavor from astatine slightest 2008 that relied connected drugs and unit to unit women to "fulfill his intersexual desires.”
Publicly, Combs' lawyer insists his lawsuit is "innocent" of each wrongdoing successful that probe, which is being kept nether wraps.
Keefe outlined successful TV shows, media interviews, and adjacent his memoir however helium was an state of Combs during the tallness of the East/ West Coast Rap Wars successful the 1990s.
He acted arsenic information for Combs successful shows and California visits with different Compton Crips.
During a gathering astatine the Hollywood eatery Greenblatt’s Deli, Keefe antecedently alleged that Combs told him helium wanted Tupac and Suge Knight eliminated, saying: “Man, I privation to get escaped of those dudes - man.”
“We wanted a million,” stated Keefe, adding that “we volition hitch their a** retired quick, you cognize - it is nothing.”
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Keefe made his confession to LAPD successful 2008 successful a recorded interview, which has been admitted into grounds for the execution trial
On tape, erstwhile asked by an serviceman “who brought up the magnitude of 1 cardinal dollars,” Keefe replied, “sh** helium did. It wasn’t me.”
Keefe repeated connected the portion that Combs had respective conversations with him to “kill some of them.”
It was unclear whether the Crips were readying to execution Tupac connected September 7, 1996, but a caravan of them trekked to Vegas, knowing the creator had a high-profile gig.
Keefe alleges, successful the constabulary tape, that Combs was delighted with Tupac’s death
“He was happy,” Keefe recalled however helium had tried to pursuit Combs for the alleged bounty without luck.
Keefe believed that this confessional portion would ne'er beryllium utilized arsenic grounds against him due to the fact that helium had secured immunity by collaborating with the LAPD successful December 2008.
Keefe is presently languishing successful jailhouse aft failing to find the bail wealth to unafraid a location electrically monitored release.
Judge Carli Kierny acceptable his bail at $750,000, but Keefe has not raised the sum and remains successful protective custody astatine the Clark County Detention Center successful Las Vegas.
Keefe complained successful his memoir and media interviews that Combs ne'er came done connected his alleged deed fee.
Arnold insisted to The U.S. Sun that Keefe simply lied repeatedly astir being progressive successful the Tupac execution and Combs for “fame and fortune.”
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Diddy's downfall
By The U.S. Sun's Senior Reporter Forrest McFarland, who has been reporting connected Diddy's ineligible battles for years
BEFORE Sean "Diddy" Combs' apprehension successful September, it was highly speculated that the rap prima would find himself successful custody aft helium was repeatedly deed with disturbing accusations - and had 2 of his mansions raided by the feds.
His mounting ineligible troubles yet came to a caput connected September 17, erstwhile helium was charged with 3 national counts, including enactment trafficking, for allegedly forcing victims to instrumentality portion successful drug-fueled enactment parties helium called "Freak Offs."
Hours earlier his arrest, The U.S. Sun exclusively revealed the feds investigating Combs were secretly liaising with Tupac Shakur execution prosecutors connected gangland activities.
The improvement besides came aft Combs was named 77 times successful documents submitted by prosecutors successful the Tupac execution case.
Aside from the Tupac probe, Combs was already facing a slew of lawsuits, including 1 helium settled with his ex, Cassie Ventura, aft she accused him of rape and abuse.
Disturbing edifice surveillance video from 2016 showed Combs chasing Cassie down and past punching, kicking, and beating her successful a hallway.
Two months earlier, successful March 2024, two of Combs' mansions were raided by national investigators, who seized 3 AR-15s, drugs, and 1,000 bottles of lube which were portion of his "Freak Off" supplies.
In summation to his national transgression charges, Combs besides faces a fistful of lawsuits with allegations of intersexual assault, harassment, and enactment trafficking dating backmost to the aboriginal 1990s.
Music shaper Rodney "Lil Rod" Jones filed 1 suit successful February 2024, claiming Combs forced him to prosecute enactment workers and enactment successful enactment acts portion helium worked connected his latest album.
Combs has denied immoderate wrongdoing and pleaded not blameworthy to the national enactment trafficking charges against him, but his conflict is acold from over.
He faces beingness successful situation if he's convicted connected each counts.
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