Los Angeles Times retracts hoax rapper story

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Source: YN

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Los Angeles Times on Monday retracted a story that linked hip-hop mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs to the 1994 shooting of rapper Tupac Shakur, admitting that the report relied on fake FBI documents.

The move came three weeks after the paper's Web site carried a lengthy story by Pulitzer Prize-winner Chuck Philips, who said that associates of Combs had arranged the assault on Shakur because they were angry that he had rejected overtures to sign with Combs' Bad Boy Records label.

Combs immediately called the Times story "beyond ridiculous and ... completely false." He strongly denied any involvement in the attack.

The Smoking Gun, a Web site that specializes in uncovering news from legal documents and court filings, said the following week that it believed Federal Bureau of Investigation documents used by the Times were forgeries.


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[Cirque du So-What]

1. Diddy: new owner of the LA Times!

I hope the LA Times gets sued to hell & back. I am not a lawyer, but there must be (criminal) laws against forging FBI documents...wouldn't ya think?!

[snooper2]

2. Diddy, creator of crap bands and even worse "music"....

We would be a hell lot better off with Tupac still on this planet vs. Diddy, and I still believe Sean Combs had something to do with it...