Sean “Diddy” Combs was embroiled in controversy long before his 2025 sex trafficking trial.

As a key figure in the East Coast-West Coast gangster rap wars of the 1990s, persistent conspiracy theories have linked Diddy to the 1996 shooting of Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas. He has also been accused of having some involvement in the murder of his former protege The Notorious B.I.G. (a.k.a. Biggie Smalls) in March 1997.

Diddy (a.k.a Puff Daddy) has denied any involvement in the two killings and has never been criminally charged — but has occasionally reflected on how hip-hop was impacted by the tragic losses of both Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G.

“There were so many rumors [about the shootings] and things for years,” he admitted to NBC’s Today in 2017. “I was more concerned with the wellbeing

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