LA Times Retracts Article

4/8/2008
S. Belkin
LA Times retracts statements that Diddy knew about Tupac attacks in advance, claiming hoax.

In mid-March, certain press publications released stories that implied associates of Sean "Diddy" Combs were involved in the assault on Tupac Shakur in 1994.

The LA Times was one of those papers, and they have since retracted these stories, claiming they relied on what turned out to be false FBI documents. The writer of the stories was Pulitzer Prize winner Chuck Philips.

On March 26, the LA Times posted an apology for the article, entitled "An Attack on Tupac Shakur Launched a Hip-Hop War," and claimed to be a victim of a hoax. The Associated Press reports, however, that The Times editor Russ Stanton did not address why the paper issued this recent retraction in addition to the apology in late March.

The information was based on documents from James Sabatino, who is currently serving a federal prison sentence for fraud.

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