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.
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That cryptic "sorry, guys" to the city of St. Louis that Sammy Hagar posted on his blog today? It's because he complained about crap-beer titan Anheuser-Busch turning down his offer to produce a Cabo Wabo-branded brew while on stage in St. Louis the other night. And then he said, "It's Miller Time." A public apology for that? What's next, him apologizing to officers for speeding? [A To Z]
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