Diddy is named 77 times in Tupac Shakur murder documents after gangster Duane 'Keefe D' Davis accused him of paying $1million for the hit

The former LA gang leader accused of murdering Tupac Shakur antecedently alleged that Sean 'Diddy' Combs offered him $1million to assassinate nan rapper, it has emerged.

Duane 'Keffe D' Davis, 61, is accused of orchestrating a drive-by shooting that killed Shakur successful 1996 successful Las Vegas. He has pleaded not blameworthy to first-degree murder.

Davis - nan only personification still live who was successful nan conveyance from which shots were fired and nan only personification ever to beryllium charged pinch a crime in nan lawsuit - has been held successful a Las Vegas jailhouse since his apprehension past September and has revenge a request for reconsideration of bail.

But Clark County prosecutors this period revenge an guidance to nan request, arguing that Davis should stay jailed because he antecedently implicated Combs, 54, successful Shakur's murder.

Citing a 2009 question and reply pinch Las Vegas police, prosecutors alleged Davis 'suggested' that Combs paid 'Eric Von Martin a cardinal dollars for nan killings' and 'offered to group up a surreptitious telephone call' pinch driver Terrance Bown, according to nan July 18 tribunal filing which was obtained by Fox 5.

Combs, who is mentioned 77 times successful nan astir 180-page tribunal documents, has ne'er been a fishy successful Shakur's killing. Law enforcement sources told TMZ that he still is not considered a fishy successful nan case. 

The documents allegedly see a transcript of Davis' 2009 question and reply pinch police, during which he claimed Combs offered to salary for nan shooting arsenic portion of an ongoing feud pinch then-record executive Marion 'Suge' Knight.

Davis told investigators, according to nan tribunal filing, that Combs said of Knight: 'I would springiness thing for that dude [sic] head'. Knight was successful nan conveyance pinch Shakur astatine nan clip of nan shooting.

'[Davis] has asserted publically that he only told connected himself and wasn't trying to supply grounds against anyone other successful his conversations pinch police,' the Clark County District Attorney's Office based on successful nan documents.

'However, this connection belies this claim, arsenic he suggested that Sean Combs paid Eric Von Martin a cardinal dollars for nan killings arsenic good arsenic offered to group up a surreptitious telephone telephone pinch Terrence Brown, nan driver, who, astatine nan time, was still alive. ' 

The prosecution's filing besides allegedly included a summary of a abstracted question and reply that Davis did pinch a BET documentary unit successful 2017 successful which he suggested Combs was progressive successful Shakur's death.

DailyMail.com has approached the Clark County District Attorney's Office for comment. 

Clark County District Court Judge Carli Kierny past period rejected Davis' bid to person a hip-hop euphony fig put up $112,500 to get his $750,000 bail bond.

Kierny past issued a terse written bid hours later giving Davis' lawyer, Carl Arnold, 1 week to supply much archiving astir nan root of nan money.

The judge said she wanted 'to laic to remainder nan court's concern' that euphony executive Cash 'Wack 100' Jones was 'acting arsenic a beforehand aliases middleman for immoderate different entity aliases person.'

In tribunal connected Tuesday, Kierny accused Arnold of shaping media attraction astir nan lawsuit involving 1 of hip-hop music's astir enduring mysteries.

'It seems for illustration your plan, your extremity end here, is to make immoderate benignant of show for nan property of this trial,' Kierny said.

'That's not my extremity end here, your honor,' Arnold responded. 'My extremity end is to triumph nan trial. If they want to travel maine pinch cameras, they tin do that.'

It was precocious reported that Arnold was fielding offers for a movie unit to travel him moving connected Davis' behalf. 

Arnold was quoted calling Shakur's decease a 'legacy' ineligible lawsuit and invoking nan representation of Johnnie Cochran, a defense lawyer for O.J. Simpson during his 1995 proceedings successful Los Angeles. Cochran, who died successful 2005, was famously credited pinch showing jurors a mitt and saying, 'If it doesn't fit, you must acquit.'

Davis, opinionated successful shackles arsenic he appeared successful tribunal Tuesday, complained astir constabulary and prosecutors reviewing worldly compiled by a erstwhile Los Angeles constabulary detective, Greg Kading, for a 2011 book astir nan killings of Shakur successful Las Vegas and rival rap icon Christopher Wallace six months later successful Los Angeles. Wallace was known arsenic The Notorious B.I.G. aliases Biggie Smalls.

'Them boxes should not beryllium allowed,' Davis said of records now being examined by constabulary and prosecutors for imaginable grounds up of his trial, scheduled for Nov. 4.

'Mr. Greg Kading had those boxes astatine his location for 15 years successful his attic doing each benignant of TV interviews,' Davis said. 'He collapsed a due agreement, and he collapsed nan law, each kinds of stuff.'

Davis besides accused nan prosecutors, Marc DiGiacomo and Binu Palal, of 'trashing my family successful this.'

'They not only disfigured connected nan extracurricular but they disfigured connected nan wrong too,' Davis said. 'These 2 dudes correct here.'

DiGiacomo and Palal did not respond later to requests for comment.

Davis said successful his ain 2019 tell-all memoir - connected starring a thoroughfare pack successful his hometown of Compton, California - that he was promised immunity from prosecution erstwhile he told authorities successful Los Angeles what he knew astir nan shootings of Shakur and Wallace.

No arrests person ever been made successful nan Wallace case. Davis is nan only personification ever charged successful nan Shakur killing.

Kading said by telephone Tuesday that he turned complete his investigative records to Las Vegas constabulary this twelvemonth - respective months aft Davis was indicted and arrested astatine his location successful suburban Henderson, Nevada. Kading said he collapsed nary laws and nary of nan worldly was obtained aliases kept illegally.

'I don't suffer slumber complete nan truth that a confessed murderer is astatine likelihood pinch maine for sharing accusation astir his engagement successful a murder,' Kading said. 'None of what he said reveals caller information. It's good known. It was based connected investigative resources from erstwhile I was astatine nan LAPD.'

Nevada rule prohibits convicted killers from profiting from their crime. But Arnold based on that since Davis hasn't been convicted, it didn't matter if Davis and Jones - a grounds executive offering to underwrite Davis' $750,000 bail - scheme to profit from trading Davis' life story.

Jones, who has managed artists including Johnathan 'Blueface' Porter and Jayceon 'The Game' Taylor, testified successful June that he wanted to put up money for Davis because Davis was fighting crab and had 'always been a monumental personification successful our organization ... particularly nan municipality community.'

Arnold connected Tuesday characterized Davis' communicative arsenic intensely absorbing to nan nationalist pinch aliases without mention of nan Shakur killing. He called his customer 'one of nan astir notorious pack leaders of each of Southern California' and 'the godfather of Compton.'

The lawyer declined to remark pursuing nan tribunal hearing.

The judge decided June 26 she wasn't convinced that Davis and Jones weren't readying to profit. She besides said she couldn't find if Jones wasn't serving arsenic a 'middleman' connected behalf of different unnamed person.

Palal said successful tribunal that a judge tin group immoderate information deemed basal to guarantee that a suspect returns to tribunal for trial. If Davis is allowed to station a 'gift' for release, he'd person nary inducement to comply pinch tribunal orders aliases look for trial, nan charismatic said.

Davis has pleaded not blameworthy to first-degree murder. If he's convicted, he could beryllium sentenced to life successful prison. 

He and prosecutors opportunity he's nan only personification still live who was successful a car from which shots were fired into different car astir 28 years ago, sidesplitting Shakur and wounding rap euphony mogul Marion 'Suge' Knight.

Authorities allege that nan shooting stemmed from title betwixt East Coast members of a Bloods pack and West Coast parts of a Crips gang, including Davis, for power successful a philharmonic genre known astatine nan clip arsenic 'gangsta rap.'

Knight, now 59, is serving 28 years successful a California situation for sidesplitting a Compton businessman pinch a conveyance successful 2015.