Tupac Shakur’s family has hired a prominent attorney to investigate whether or not Diddy was involved in his 1996 murder.
Diddy has long been rumored to have been involved in the murder, but he has never been charged.
In light of mounting criminal allegations against him, including an indictment last month on charges including sex trafficking and extortion, Tupac’s family wants the case reviewed.
The family has hired prominent New York celebrity lawyer Alex Spiro, who is also currently representing New York City Mayor Eric Adams on bribery charges, and his team of investigators to investigate Diddy’s alleged link to the crime.
Diddy has long been rumored to have been involved in the murder, but he has never been charged. The pair appear with rapper Notorious BIG, who was murdered in 1997, a year after Tupac’s murder.
Tupac’s family has hired prominent New York celebrity lawyer Alex Spiro, known for working with high-profile clients such as Alec Baldwin, Eric Adams and Elon Musk.
They are hoping that prominent, privately retained attorney Spiro can find the link that prosecutors and LAPD detectives never could, according to Court Television.
Spiro made headlines earlier this year after securing Alec Baldwin’s freedom in his ‘Rust’ shooting trial, before also taking on Adams as a client in recent weeks after federal prosecutors accused him of bribery.
For his latest role, he will delve into the hip-hop feud between Tupac and Diddy in the 1990s, which was fueled by an East-West rap rivalry.
On the East Coast were Diddy, whose real name is Sean Combs, and fellow rapper Notorious BIG, whose real name is Christopher Wallace.
The rivalry was based on Tupac, on the West Coast, being convinced that Notorious BIG was behind a 1994 robbery of which he was the target.
Two years later, in September 1996, Tupac was killed in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas, which many blamed on the East Coast rap contingent, including Diddy.
After more than two decades of speculation, Duane Keith Davis, known as Keefe D, was charged last year for his role in the shooting. He is awaiting trial.
Tupac was killed in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas on September 7, 1996 (pictured)
When Tupac was murdered at just 25 years old, many blamed the East Coast rap contingent, including Diddy, for his death.
Diddy and Notorious BIG (pictured together) were on the ‘East Side’ of a rap rivalry that took over hip hop in the 1990s, with Tupac on the ‘West Side’.
Although Davis has been the only person charged with Tupac’s murder, he previously named Diddy as an alleged conspirator.
According to a detective who testified in his case, Davis claimed that ‘Suge’ Knight, who was driving the car in which Tupac was shot, told people that Diddy was ‘responsible, if not directly, then indirectly, for the murder of his good friend’.
Just months after Tupac’s death, the Notorious BIG, also known as Biggie Smalls, was also shot in a copycat drive-by shooting in Los Angeles that was blamed on the West Coast side of the rivalry.
One of the detectives who investigated the murder, Greg Kading, appeared this week on the Daily Mail’s new podcast. Diddy’s trial.
He spoke after a wave of accusations and criminal charges against Diddy, and looking back on his investigation of the hip hop world he was a part of in the 1990s, Kading said that “Diddy’s true character is finally coming to light.” “.
Spiro did not immediately respond to a request for comment when contacted by DailyMail.com.