Doc Raises Questions About Sean Combs’ Involvement in Tupac Shakur and Christopher Wallace’s Deaths

Sean “Diddy” Combs has for decades denied any part in the deaths of rappers Tupac Shakur and Christopher Wallace (a.k.a. Biggie Smalls). Now Netflix’s docuseries Sean Combs: The Reckoning has raised new questions, with several participants alleging that the 56-year-old — currently in prison on prostitution charges — was indeed involved in the murders. “I think that Sean had a lot to do with the death of Tupac, [and] he ushered Biggie to his death,” Bad Boy Records co-founder Kirk Burrowes claims on the show.

In 1996, Diddy’s rival Tupac, 25, was fatally wounded in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas. A year later, Biggie, 24, was also killed in a drive-by after attending the Soul Train Music Awards in L.A. While the Las Vegas PD has said it never considered Diddy a suspect, in 2024 it was revealed that years earlier Duane “Keefe D” Davis allegedly said he was ordered to carry out Tupac’s shooting by the “Bad Boy for Life” singer. (Davis, who pleaded not guilty to murder, heads to trial in February.) As for Biggie, Burrowes claims that Diddy “talked him into” attending the awards, despite the East Coast rappers being warned to stay away from L.A. amid the notorious East Coast/West Coast rap war. “All of it because Sean wanted to do a party on enemy turf,” Burrowes says, blaming him for putting Biggie in harm’s way.

Later in the doc, a former LAPD detective claims Diddy was “unhelpful” in the investigation, saying, “He knows, if you make inroads on Biggie’s murder, you’re gonna make inroads on Tupac’s murder, and that potentially can lead right back to him.” Diddy has never been charged.