Tupac Shakur's family lawyer up to investigate shock claim Diddy offered Duane 'Keefe D' Davis $1million to kill iconic rapper

Tupac Shakur's family person retained attorneys to analyse a daze allegation that Sean 'Diddy' Combs may person played a portion successful nan rapper's 1996 murder.

Former LA gang leader Duane 'Keefe D' Davis, 61,  - who is accused of murdering Shakur - antecedently alleged successful 2009 that Diddy offered him $1million to assassinate nan rapper. Diddy is not and has ne'er been a fishy successful nan murder

Davis is accused of orchestrating the  drive-by shooting that killed Shakur aged 25 in Las Vegas. He has pleaded not blameworthy to first-degree execution and is group to spell to proceedings successful November.

The allegation resurfaced aft Davis revenge a petition for a reconsideration of bail - pinch Clark County prosecutors this period filling an guidance - arguing that Davis should stay jailed because of his erstwhile Combs allegation.

Sources told TMZ members of Tupac's surviving relatives person retained attorneys Alex Spiro and Christopher Clore - arsenic good arsenic a squad of investigators - to look into nan allegation that Diddy offered to pay  Davis and his unit money to execution Tupac.

It was claimed nan family consciousness nan declare whitethorn person constituent and together pinch nan ineligible squad are hoping to excavation up immoderate imaginable evidence. 

The insiders declare nan squad moving nan backstage investigation are assured they will find imaginable evidence, including much ineligible documents.

If accusation is recovered that implicates Diddy this will beryllium passed to nan authorities - but if thing does originate connected nan criminal front, Shakur's family will reportedly look into filing a wrongful decease suit.

DailyMail.com has contacted Diddy's typical for comment. 

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.

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 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.

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 earlier this month, 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. 

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.'

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