Tupac's Case Against Diddy Has ONE Problem Nobody Can Fix

**Tony Brueski** (0:01)
This is HiddenKillers With Tony Brueski.

**Tony Brueski** (0:11)
All right, the big question everybody's asking, and we've talked about this before, but we haven't talked about it since there's been a conviction in the death of Tupac Shakur. What does it mean that Keffe D has been convicted for the murder of Tupac for Sean Diddy Combs? His name came up a lot in this trial. But does it mean anything? Will this go anywhere? We're going to talk about that today. I'd love to get your thoughts in the comment section as we work our way through this tangled mess. A retired Los Angeles police detective sat in a Las Vegas courtroom and told a jury that Duane Keffe D. Davis claimed Sean Diddy Combs was supposed to funnel a million dollars through a Harlem intermediary named Eric Zip Martin. In payment, according to Davis, so the murder of Tupac Shakur, the detective Darren Dupree testified that Davis told investigators Combs solicited the killing during a conversation at Greenblatt's Deli in Los Angeles. The money was supposed to flow from Combs to Zip Martin to Davis. It allegedly never arrived. Members of Tupac's family were sitting in the courtroom when Dupree said its sources close to Combs responded with an hour. He had absolutely nothing to do with it. That's been their stance. It still is today. He's denying everything to do with this. That exchange, allegation from the witness stand, denial from the other side, has been happening in different forms for nearly two decades. Davis first made the claim to police in 2008 Combs has never been charged. He's never been a suspect. And Las Vegas police have publicly said he has never been considered one. If there's enough to say it in open court, the obvious question is why there has never been enough to do anything about it. The answer is a single word. Most people have never had to think about it in a courtroom. And once you understand it, you'll understand exactly why nothing has happened and whether it ever could. The claim starts back in 2008 Davis was facing federal drug charges in Los Angeles. Investigators use that leverage to get him into a room. A proffer is an agreement where a suspect provides information to law enforcement and in exchange, investigators agree not to use his specific statements against him. Wink, wink. Obviously, they did. It is sometimes called a Queen for a Day session. The detective running the interview, LAPD's Greg Kading, told Davis on tape, nothing you say can be used against you. The session was originally about the 1997 murder of Christopher Wallace, notorious BIG. Davis started talking about Tupac instead. Wait a second. We're not talking about that, but you're what? You did what? In the interview, Davis told investigators that Combs pulled him aside at Greenblatt's Deli on Sunset Boulevard and told him he had a couple of problems he needed handled, naming Tupac and Suge Knight. Davis alleged Combs said something to the effect of, I would give anything for those dudes' heads. The alleged offer, according to Davis, a million dollars, routed through his associate, Zip Martin. Davis claims he told his crew Combs would pay for the hit. And comes apart that matters for what happened next. The alleged payment never arrived. Davis says he tried to collect from Zip Martin after the murder. Martin told him Combs had not paid. Sorry. Davis said he tried to reach Combs directly. The phone calls went unanswered. In his own words in the 2008 tape, I wish I never met Puff Daddy, period. He messed up my life, man. Yeah. Or you should have just said, no, I don't really want to go kill someone for money. I don't know. That might have been another choice, another option you had. Investigators took the claim seriously enough to act on it. In 2009, Davis traveled to New York as a confidential police informant with a specific assignment, verified the Combs connection and rekindled his relationship with Zip Martin. The goal was to get Martin talking about the money that allegedly passed from Combs to Martin and never reached Davis. The operation produced no usable evidence. But Davis didn't stop talking. He repeated versions of the same account in the 2009 follow-up interview with Las Vegas Police in a BET documentary series in 2018 and in a memoir in 2019 called Compton Street Legend. He said it on YouTube. He said it to anyone with a camera or a microphone. So why did nobody act on it? Well, the answer is coordination and corroboration. To charge a person with murder conspiracy based on what a cooperating witness says, prosecutors need something independent that confirms the claim, a payment record, a contemporary witness, a recording of the request, financial documents tracing the money for the Combs allegation, specifically every potential corroborating witness happens to be dead. Eric Zip Martin, the alleged intermediary who was supposed to deliver the money, died in 2012 from cancer. Orlando Baby Lane Anderson, the man Davis says, fired the shots that killed Tupac, was killed in an unrelated gang shooting at a Compton car wash in 98 He was 23