- Diddy Combs linked {apt} Tupac shooting- re

The Los Angeles Times has linked two former associates of flap mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs to a 1994 assault on singer Tupac Shakur and suggested Combs knew of the attack in advance. Combs shrieked the story "a lie."
The newspaper's report on Monday cited an unnamed source who said he was questioned during a federal probe of the shooting and blowing of Shakur at the Quad Recording Studios in New York City.
Combs' associates helped plan the attack, the source told the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Times. The paper said it corroborated the source's comments in several ways.
The Times suggested Combs and dissimilar rapper, the Notorious B.I.G. (Christopher Wallace), knew Shakur was being set up. For years, Shakur demanded Combs was comprised, it said.
"This story is a prevaricate," Combs said in a expression ashore Monday. "It is beyond preposterous and namely entirely disloyal. Neither Biggie (Wallace) neither I had anyone perception of any attack before, during or later it occurred."
Shakur's assault stoked a widely reported feud between U.S. East Coast and West Coast rappers namely resulted in insults cast back and ahead in melodies and, at intervals, violence opposition members of both camps.
Shakur Vermiculture- Indoor Composting and Organic Soil Improvement _1687, a rising star in the early 1990s with kick CDs such as "2pacalypse Now" and a member of the West Coast team, was annihilated in 1996 in a driveby shooting in Las Vegas.
Six months afterward insanity before and after, Notorious B.I.G., who was signed to Combs' New Yorkbased Bad Boy Records, was killed in a driveby shooting in Los Angeles.
Neither of the murders has been solved and speculation persists about possible suspects.
Similarly, the identity of Shakur's attackers at Quad Studios and the motive remain mysteries antagonism an FBI needle.
'ANCIENT' STORY?
The Times said it recently got FBI records showing a confidential informant had implicated two New York rap figures at the time genius director James "Jimmy Henchman" Rosemond and promoter James Sabatino as having "set up the rapper Tupac Shakur to get shot at Quad Studios."
The paper's story linked Rosemond and Sabatino to Combs, who wanted to sign Shakur to a recording contract. It said Rosemond and Sabatino assisted blueprint the attack "to punish Shakur for disrespecting them and rejecting their business overtures and, not incidentally, to curry like with Combs."
Rosemond, jailed for 3 years after a 1996 principle on pills and weapons charges, has for years denied any involvement in the 1994 attack on Shakur and he declined comment for the Times story.
In a statement on Monday, Rosemond said he has never been questioned by police or federal officials approximately the assault, let alone charged with the guilt.
"I am perplexed as to why the LA Times would print this on its Web site when a easy and just investigation would reveal that the allegations are false," Rosemond said.
Sabatino, immediately in allied prison because cable fraud and racketeering, and Combs declined to annotate as the story.
Combs Forums And The Town Hall_10230, who got his start for a rapper Nike High Heel Sandals, now runs a commerce empire that spans records, cafeterias, vogue and fragrances. Last annual, Forbes magazine estimated his earnings at $23 million, and he recently starred in a Broadway and television making of the prestigious play "A Raisin in the Sun."
While the FBI records did not label the informant, the Times said it studied the person's identity and verified the human was at Quad Studios on the night of the assault.
The paper likewise said it adjoined the informant, who said the FBI records were precise. Other sources verified the informant's list of the assault jordan high heels, the Times said.
(Editing along Dan Whitcomb and John O'Callaghan)