Tupac Shakur’s family launches investigation into Diddy’s alleged involvement in his death
The family of Tupac Shakur have reportedly decided to investigate some of the recent rumours that Diddy was involved in the murder of the late rapper.
Keefe is currently on trial for the murder of 2Pac, and digging up previous interviews while speaking with him now has raised a lot more questions surrounding the murder of the West Coast rapper and who might have been involved.
On July 29th, TMZ reported that some of the West Coast rapper’s relatives had retained a team of investigators, as well as lawyers Alex Spiro and Christopher Clore, to look into the claim that had resurfaced recently. Keefe D, the man currently on trial for 2Pac’s murder, claims that Diddy offered to pay him to murder the rapper in the ‘90s.
In 2009, when interviewed by the police, Keefe said that Diddy had approached him and offered to pay $1million to kill 2Pac and Suge Knight. This was during the peak of Bad Boy’s beef with Death Row Records in the ‘90s, which is why Diddy wanted to take such drastic action.
Keefe is due to go on trial for the murder of 2Pac later this year. In a legal filing obtained by The Sun, prosecutors in the trial claim that they worked with Keefe after their interview to try and get evidence against Diddy. Keefe, in this sense, became an “Active confidential informant” for the task force, which was initially put together to investigate the murder of Biggie.
Though the 179-page document states that the gang member joined the task force to find evidence to corroborate the conspiracy to kill 2Pac, Diddy is yet to be formally charged with the offence, and it remains to be seen whether or not he will be. 2Pac’s family have confirmed that if they find any evidence against Diddy they fully intend to press charges against him.
Diddy spoke out against his alleged involvement in 2011, saying that Keefe’s claims are “Pure fiction and completely ridiculous.”
Keefe remains the only person who has ever been charged with the murder of the rapper, which took place in Las Vegas over two years ago. He has pleaded not guilty to all of the charges put against him, although he has confessed on multiple occasions that he was involved in the murder of 2Pac, most notably in his book Compton Street Legend, which was published in 2019.
Keefe isn’t set to stand trial until later in the year and has already made his opposition to some of the evidence submitted by the prosecution known, as he asked for evidence sitting in boxes for decades to be stricken from the record.