Tupac Shakur’s family has hired a prominent attorney to probe whether or not Diddy was involved in his 1996 killing.
Diddy has long been rumored to have been involved in the murder – but has never been charged.
In light of the mounting criminal allegations against him now – including an indictment last month on charges including sex trafficking and racketeering – Tupac’s family want the case to be revisited.
The family have hired prominent New York celebrity attorney Alex Spiro, who is also currently representing embattled NYC Mayor Eric Adams on bribery charges, and his team of investigators to look into Diddy’s alleged link to the crime.
Diddy has long been rumored to have been involved in the murder – but has never been charged. The pair are shown with rapper Notorious B.I.G., who was killed in 1997, the year after Tupac’s murder
Tupac’s family have hired prominent New York celebrity attorney Alex Spiro, known for working with high profile clients including Alec Baldwin, Eric Adams and Elon Musk
They are hopeful that privately hired hotshot attorney Spiro may be able to find the link that prosecutors and LAPD detectives never could, according to Court TV.
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 he was charged with bribery by federal prosecutors.
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 was Diddy – whose real name is Sean Combs – and fellow rapper Notorious B.I.G, real name Christopher Wallace.
The rivalry was based upon Tupac, on the West Coast, being convinced that Notorious B.I.G. 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 the East Coast rap contingent, including Diddy.
After over two decades of speculation, last year Duane Keith Davis, known as Keefe D, was charged 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 killed aged just 25, many blamed the East Coast rap contingent, including Diddy, for his death
Diddy and the Notorious B.I.G. (pictured together) were on the ‘East Side’ of a rap rivalry that gripped hip hop in the 1990s, with Tupac on the ‘West Side’
Although Davis has been the only person charged with Tupac’s murder, he has previously named Diddy as an alleged conspirator.
According to a detective that testified in his case, Davis claimed ‘Suge’ Knight, who was driving the car that Tupac was shot in, told people that Diddy was ‘responsible, if not directly, indirectly for the murder of his good friend.’
Just months after Tupac’s death, Notorious B.I.G. – 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 new Daily Mail podcast, The Trial of Diddy.
He spoke following a wave of allegations and criminal charges levied at Diddy, and looking back on his investigation of the hip hop world he was part of in the 1990s, Kading said Diddy’s ‘true character is finally coming out.’
Spiro did not immediately respond to a request for comment when contacted by DailyMail.com.
