The household of the late rapper Tupac Shakur has employed a outstanding New York lawyer to analyze alleged hyperlinks between his demise and Sean “Diddy” Combs, Fox Information Digital has confirmed.Â
Alex Spiro, a 41-year-old, Harvard-trained legal professional, helped “Rust” actor Alec Baldwin safe a authorized victory in his involuntary manslaughter case. Baldwin was charged with manslaughter in 2021, after his on-set taking pictures led to the tragic demise of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Shakur’s household has employed Spiro, who has a roster of Hollywood purchasers, to analyze whether or not Combs had any involvement with the late rapper’s demise almost 30 years in the past.
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Tupac Shakur’s household has employed legal professional Alex Spiro to analyze alleged hyperlinks between Sean “Diddy” Combs and the homicide of the late rapper. (Getty Pictures)
Shakur was fatally shot in a drive-by taking pictures on Sept. 7, 1996. The rapper was using shotgun in Demise Row Data co-founder Marion “Suge” Knight’s black BMW when a white Cadillac pulled up alongside them whereas they had been stopped at a visitors gentle. Knight was within the automobile with Shakur once they had been attacked in Las Vegas.Â
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Alex Spiro helped Alec Baldwin safe a authorized victory in his involuntary manslaughter case. (Getty Pictures)
Business legends Shakur and Infamous B.I.G., a Dangerous Boy artist, each died in drive-by shootings.
Biggie, whose actual identify was Christopher Wallace, died within the arms of certainly one of Combs’ bodyguards.Â
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The late Tupac Shakur and Marion “Suge” Knight had been pictured in 1996. (Jeff Kravitz)
The circumstances prompted hypothesis and conspiracy theories for greater than a decade. Police in Las Vegas lastly introduced an indictment in Shakur’s homicide final yr.
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Duane “Keefe D” Davis arrives in a Las Vegas court docket on October 19, 2023, for his arraignment on homicide prices within the demise of rapper Tupac Shakur. (John Lochner/Pool/AFP through Getty Pictures)
Final September, Duane “Keffe D” Davis was indicted on the cost of open homicide with use of a lethal weapon together with a gang enhancement, prosecutors revealed throughout a press convention. In 2018, Davis made media statements that “reinvigorated” the investigation, police stated on the time.
In 2008, Combs denied a report by the Los Angeles Occasions that his associates had been liable for the 1994 theft and taking pictures of Shakur at a New York recording studio, or that he had recognized concerning the assault upfront.
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On Sept. 16, Combs was arrested and charged with racketeering conspiracy; intercourse trafficking by power, fraud or coercion; and transportation to have interaction in prostitution. (Munawar Hosain)
“The story is a lie,” the hip-hop mogul stated in a press release on the time. “It’s past ridiculous and fully false. Neither (the late rapper Infamous B.I.G.) nor I had any information of any assault earlier than, throughout or after it occurred. . . . I’m shocked that the Los Angeles Occasions can be so irresponsible as to publish such a baseless and fully unfaithful story.”
The 1994 taking pictures triggered the celebrated feud between East and West Coast rappers that led to the killings of Shakur and B.I.G.
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The information of Shakur’s household hiring New York legal professional Spiro comes as Combs is confronted with a slew of prices and is at the moment in jail.
On September 16, Combs was arrested and charged with racketeering conspiracy; intercourse trafficking by power, fraud or coercion; and transportation to have interaction in prostitution. He faces a minimal of 15 years behind bars and a most sentence of life in jail if discovered responsible.
Fox Information Digital’s Lauryn Overhultz and Michael Ruiz contributed to this report.
