L.A. Times Retracts Tupac Story Implicating Diddy
The Los Angeles Times already apologized for a front-page tarradiddle that implicated Sean "Diddy" Combs in the 1994 New York shooting of late knocker Tupac Shakur. On Monday (Apr 7), the newspaper retracted the chronicle only, admitting that the newsman, Chuck Philips, relied on postiche Federal Bureau of Investigation documents to build his flawed reputation.
The retraction came iII weeks afterwards the paper's Web site published a narrative by Philips — a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer wHO has ofttimes investigated and reported on the murders of Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G. — titled "An Approach on Tupac Shakur Launched a Rap War," which alleged that associates of Combs' had arranged the shooting of Shakur at a Newly House of York recording studio after the knocker had turned down offers to connect Combs' Badly Boy Records label.
In Monday's retraction, the Times reported that Philips' story and the related faked documents get been removed from the paper's website because the article "relied heavily on info that the Multiplication no thirster believes to be credible."
Combs told MTV News show last calendar week that the Multiplication floor and the tender press out insurance coverage "just really ache." He vehemently denied any affair in the Shakur shot from the moment the tarradiddle was published.
A week after Philips' article ran, TheSmokingGun.com revealed that the documents Philips used to build elements of his narration appeared to experience been faked by a noted counterfeiter and hip-hop aspirer player, James Sabatino, wHO is currently in prison house on charges of wire
