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Chuck Phillips, the Los Angeles Times reporter who couldn’t stop thinking that Diddy had something to do with Tupac Shakur’s 1996 murder, is leaving the paper as part of its recent 150-staffer reduction of its newsroom. Also departing: longtime music scribe Richard Cromelin. MORE »
Layoffs
Chuck Phillips, the Los Angeles Times reporter who couldn’t stop thinking that Diddy had something to do with Tupac Shakur’s 1996 murder, is leaving the paper as part of its recent 150-staffer reduction of its newsroom. Also departing: longtime music scribe Richard Cromelin. MORE »
Suge Knight was knocked unconscious for several minutes on Saturday during a scuffle outside of a nightclub in Los Angeles. While Suge’s guards promptly delivered the kind of smackdown you’d expect, the victim of their aggression was able to make one connect, and good. MORE »
Suge Knight was knocked unconscious for several minutes on Saturday during a scuffle outside of a nightclub in Los Angeles. While Suge’s guards promptly delivered the kind of smackdown you’d expect, the victim of their aggression was able to make one connect, and good. MORE »
Suge Knight was knocked unconscious for several minutes on Saturday during a scuffle outside of a nightclub in Los Angeles. While Suge’s guards promptly delivered the kind of smackdown you’d expect, the victim of their aggression was able to make one connect, and good. MORE »
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“LA Times” Finally Retracts Latest “Diddy Knew!” Tupac Expose
The Los Angeles Times has retracted its controversial March 17 story “An Attack on Tupac Shakur Launched a Hip-Hop War,” which claimed that Sean “Diddy” Combs was aware that Shakur would be attacked in late November 1994, and that the attack was orchestrated by associates of the Bad Boy CEO. The paper acknowledged that it had been hoaxed by its “confidential sources” immediately following a March 27 debunking of the story on The Smoking Gun, but only today did it announce a full retraction of the original article, written by longtime Diddy conspiracy theorist Chuck Phillips. MORE »
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Diddy Didn’t Do It: “Dude Was Duped,” Demur “LA Times” Dinks
The Los Angeles Times and Bad Boy Hater No. 1 Chuck Phillips have admitted that their latest attempt to implicate Sean “Diddy” Combs in the shooting of Tupac Shakur was based on forged FBI reports, which the Smoking Gun reported yesterday. “In relying on documents that I now believe were fake, I failed to do my job,” says Phillips. Will this finally force Phillips to move on already? Or will he still unleash two related pieces he promised would arrive this year? MORE »
Chuck Phillips’ latest Los Angeles Times article implicating Sean Combs in the shooting of Tupac Shakur may have been based on fradulent FBI reports created by Frank Sabatino, a 31-year-old scam artist who likes to get up close and clerical with rap superstars. MORE »
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Who Was Involved In Tupac’s 1994 Shooting? Maybe These Guys?
In a lengthy story published this morning that rather exhaustively recaps the events leading up to the 1996 death of Tupac Shakur, the L.A. Times comes this close to naming the assailants behind Shakur’s non-fatal 1994 shooting outside of a New York studio. The paper does, however, finger the men who reportedly planned the shooting thanks to “newly discovered information,” and they include pals of one P. Diddy, longtime hip-hop biz fixtures who’ve repeatedly denied the rumors/accusations that they had any involvement with the assault. MORE »
