*Duane Keith “Keffe D” Davis, the sole person charged in the 1996 murder of rapper Tupac Shakur, has claimed that Sean “Diddy” Combs offered a $1 million bounty to kill Shakur and Death Row Records executive Marion “Suge” Knight.
We reported earlier that Davis, a leader of the South Side Crips, alleges the offer came amid a heated rivalry between Combs’ Bad Boy Records and Knight’s Death Row. Combs has consistently denied any involvement, and Las Vegas police have stated he was never a suspect in the case.
The allegations stem from a 2008 DEA report, obtained by USA TODAY, where Davis recounted Combs’ alleged desire to eliminate his rivals. “I have a couple of problems I need to be handled: Big CEO and Pac,” Davis quoted Combs as saying during a meeting at Greenblatt’s Deli in Los Angeles. A 2003 lawsuit by former Bad Boy president Kirk Burrowes echoed this claim, though it was dismissed. Recent civil suits, including one filed by Burrowes in 2025, allege Combs orchestrated the shooting and possibly rented the Cadillac used in the drive-by.
On September 7, 1996, after a Las Vegas boxing match, Shakur and Bloods gang members attacked Davis’ nephew, Orlando Anderson, sparking a chain of events. Later that night, Davis’ crew, in a rented Cadillac, spotted Shakur in a BMW driven by Knight. “Zip had a hidden compartment that he opened up, reached in, and pulled a black .40 Glock out,” Davis wrote in his 2019 book “Compton Street Legend,” describing how an associate provided the weapon. Shakur was fatally shot, while Knight survived a graze wound.
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Davis, awaiting trial after his 2023 murder charge, insists he had immunity from prior police interviews, a claim his defense uses to challenge the case.
Meanwhile, Combs, recently convicted on unrelated prostitution charges, faces mounting civil suits. “This story is pure fiction and completely ridiculous,” Combs told LA Weekly in 2011, dismissing the allegations.
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