The Los Angeles Times has been had. Last week, the publication ran a report claiming that the 1994 shooting of Tupac Shakur in the lobby of a Manhattan recording studio was carried out by associates of Sean “Diddy” Combs, Biggie Smalls, and Jimmy Henchmen, The Smoking Gun is now reporting that story was an elaborate daydream created by incarcerated con man James Sabatino.
“Questions have been raised about the authenticity of documents that we relied on for a story on the assault of Tupac Shakur in New York. We are taking this very seriously and have begun our own investigation,” L.A. Times editor Russ Stanton said in a statement.
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Mike Belgrove // Mar 27, 2008 at 12:04 pm
One of the other writers on Highbrid Nation did a story on Pac and the craziness surrounding that shooting and I wondered what other were saying about this. It seems to me that this is something the news media refuses to let go. Everyone wants to be the one who solves the crime. In reality what are the chances of us solving a 15 year old crime? And in the end does it matter? That shooting did not lead to Pac’s death. He recovered from that shooting. So what’s the fuss about?
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