Lawyer for Diddy to lash out at LA Times over "defamatory nature" of Shakur story
A lawyer for Sean "Diddy" Combs lashed out at the Los Angeles Times on Thursday over the "defamatory nature" of a story the paper published that sought to link the rap music mogul to an assault on Tupac Shakur, relates The Associated Press.
The story, which first appeared on March 17, was later said to be based on forged FBI documents. Late Wednesday, the paper and Times reporter Chuck Philips apologized for the story, and Philips said he now believes the papers are fake.
The "apology is, at best, a first step, but it doesn't undo the false and defamatory nature of the story, or the suspicion and innuendo that Mr. Combs has had to endure due to these untruthful allegations and the irresponsible conduct of this particular reporter," Combs' attorney Howard Weitzman said in a statement.
The Times story cited previously undisclosed FBI documents, an unnamed informant interviewed for those documents, and 
Philips' own sources as saying Combs knew of plans to assault Shakur at the Quad Recording Studios in New York City in 1994.
The attack left rising rap star Shakur with five gunshot wounds and ignited a widely reported feud between East Coast and West Coast rappers.
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