Another day, another macabre story involving Diddy. Nearly 30 years after Tupac Shakur’s killing, new claims have resurfaced tying the disgraced Bad Boy mogul to the case as Duane “Keefe D” Davis prepares to face trial.
Get this, according to a 2025 DEA document reviewed by USA Today, comments Davis made during police interviews in 2008 and 2009 are once again drawing attention. Davis, a former South Side Compton Crips leader who has admitted involvement in the 1996 shooting, previously alleged that Diddy offered a $1 million bounty for the deaths of both Tupac and Death Row Records founder Marion “Suge” Knight. Davis has said the money was never actually paid out, but claimed Diddy told him he “would give anything for those dudes’ heads.”
While Diddy, who is still in jail, has never been charged or formally named as a suspect by Las Vegas authorities, his name has often surfaced in connection with the case. Former Bad Boy security guard Gene Deal has long suggested that Eric “Von Zip” Martin may have played a role in handling the supposed arrangement, even urging investigators to track down financial records that might back the story.
Diddy has consistently denied any involvement in Tupac’s death. Mopreme Shakur, Tupac’s brother, once confirmed that the mogul personally called him in the 2000s to distance himself from the allegations. “The boy Puffy called me though,” Mopreme recalled in an interview with The Art of Dialogue. “Puffy called me back in the day. … He was like, ‘I just want you to know I ain’t have nothing to do with your brother’s [murder]. I know who you are, but we never met and I just want to call you man to man and let you know that I ain’t have nothing to do with your brother’s death.’”