Diddy has been named 47 times in a secretly recorded police interview accusing him of offering "millions" for the murders of Tupac Shakur and record boss Suge Knight.
The rap mogul - real name Sean Combs - was apparently livid that Tupac had badmouthed him and wanted revenge, according to a transcript of a "surreptitiously recorded" interview filed by prosecutors in the murder trial of Duane "Keefe D" Davis.
Keefe filed for the case against him to be dismissed last week, but prosecutors hit back today in a 180-page filing where they claim the gangster has "confessed to being involved in Shakur’s murder in nearly every forum imaginable."
A full transcript of one of the "confessions," which Keefe made during a secretly recorded interview with Las Vegas police in 2009, was included in the latest court filing, revealing some bombshell allegations surrounding Tupac’s September 1996 murder.
Diddy, 55, is currently in federal custody in New York City after his September indictment on charges of sex trafficking, racketeering, and transportation to engage in prostitution.
He denies the recent charges and has previously dismissed claims he orchestrated Tupac’s murder as "completely ridiculous" and "pure fiction." He has never been arrested or charged over Tupac’s death, and Las Vegas cops have previously said he is not a suspect in the case.
The new court papers in the Tupac case, obtained by The U.S. Sun, detail how Diddy was a central discussion point in the previously unreleased police interview, raising questions about his role in the killing.
Keefe, who has pleaded not guilty to the murder charge, boasted on tape to Detective Long of the Las Vegas Metro Police Department how he was the “boss” overseeing three other Southside Crips on the crime - but that Diddy allegedly played a role in the murder.
When Long asked directly, “Does he play a role in this thing?” referring to Diddy, Keefe replied, “Yeah," according to the transcript.
Keefe then goes on to claim Diddy’s hatred of West Coast record label rival Suge Knight was so extreme he instructed him, “Ah, s**t, I’ll give anything for that dude head.”
Diddy - then known as Puffy - allegedly told Keefe that the price on their heads was “mother-f**king millions” in front of 45 people who were gathered in a room with them, according to the transcript.
He added of Suge, who was driving the car when he and Tupac were gunned down, allegedly by Keefe’s men, “He didn’t say no specific dollar amount, but he, he wanted the man’s head though," adding that "he was real scared of that guy.”
Keefe is then asked, "What about, did Puff have any problems, Puffy have any problems with Tupac?"
"About that, ah, yeah, that record came out, told him he’s a f**ker and all that s**t," Keefe replied.
’F**K THAT DUDE’
Tupac released his infamous diss track Hit Em Up in June 1996, in which he took aim at Diddy, Notorious BIG, and a host of other East Coast rappers.
In the transcript, which has now been entered as evidence in the murder trial, Keefe said that Diddy’s view on Tupac was “f**k that dude.”
Keefe then recalls how he was delighted after seeing his nephew Orlando Anderson fire at Tupac and Suge off the Las Vegas Strip on September 13, 1996, saying, “We was like ‘Damn, we can get paid now.’”
He then clarifies the source of that alleged payday was Diddy.
“When you said paid, paid by Puffy, right?” Long asks, to which Keefe says, “Yeah.”
Keefe then alleges Diddy did not pay him directly.
Instead, a mutual acquaintance named Eric “Zip” Martin, who had supplied Keefe’s crew with the murder weapon, made the payment, according to the court filing.
Keefe claimed “the word on the streets” through gang circles was that Zip kept the alleged million-dollar bounty for himself rather than hand it over, adding on the tape that “Zip got paid by Puff at some point.”
The 61-year-old said he made several efforts to contact Diddy directly after he was released from a drug conviction prison sentence in 2002.
“[I] called Puff too when I got out,” Keefe said, but Diddy stayed silent.
Sometime “after everything went down” Keefe told Long on the recording that he and Diddy met in the parking lot of the Hollywood House of Blues.
“[Diddy] came to the car, then he acted scared of us," Keefe said.
"He was just, ah, like he was telling us to come, come meet him at the hotel room, Hilton, and woo-woo-woo.
"So he asked us did we have some weed and stuff. But that mother-f**ker he never took his eyes off of us though at all."
He added: “He didn’t say nothing. He just back up, he just was in the window, just talking to me.
“He just backed up, and there was girls all over him, he steady watching the car. He wasn’t paying no attention none of them girls. Was tripping with her like this mother-f**ker’s scared.”
The 143-page transcript is the bombshell evidence that prosecutors feel proves that Keefe - without any immunity protection - must serve life in prison.
However, Keefe’s lawyer Carl Arnold has said his client lied about his and Diddy’s involvement in the crime for fame and money.
LEGAL PROBLEMS
With Keefe’s trial coming up in March, prosecutors recently made an unusual declaration about whether Diddy or Knight could testify as witnesses.
“Both Suge Knight and Sean ’Puffy’ Combs are not unavailable, although they do face their own legal problems,” they wrote, seemingly leaving open the door to having both testify.
Judge Carli Kierny will listen to both sides’s arguments and rule on whether Keefe’s trial will progress at a Las Vegas District Court hearing on Tuesday.
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