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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
Entertainment
Catherine Armecin Martin

Diddy Could Face Charges Over Tupac Murder as Keffe D Trial Puts Alleged $1M Hit Claim Under Spotlight

Duane 'Keffe D' Davis's Las Vegas murder trial has revived a decades-old claim that Sean 'Diddy' Combs paid £750,000 ($1m) to have Tupac Shakur killed in 1996 (Credit: Nicolas Richoffer, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons)

Nearly 30 years after Tupac Shakur was gunned down on the Las Vegas Strip, the trial of the man accused of orchestrating his killing has reopened hip-hop's darkest mystery and dragged Sean 'Diddy' Combs into the frame. Duane 'Keffe D' Davis, 63, is standing trial for murder, and evidence in court includes a claim that could see the disgraced mogul face charges of his own.

At the centre of it is a decades-old allegation, first made by Davis in a covert 2008 police recording and repeated in his memoir: that Combs paid £750,000 ($1 million) to have Shakur killed. Prosecutors say a guilty verdict could open the door to an investigation into Combs.

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