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Friday, July 18, 2008 | 3:01pm
Chuck Philips, L.A. Times Writer Responsible for Diddy/ Tupac Murder Conspiracy Fired
Former Pulitzer Prize winner victim of newspaper’s budget cuts
Happy Friday! Remember a few months ago there was a whole lot of buzz across the Blogosphere and The Nation about a controversial report published by the Los Angeles Times and written by music critic, Chuck Phillips in which he implicated Sean “Diddy” Combs and James “Jimmy Henchmen” Rosemond in the 1994 Tupac Shakur murder. The reports were soon after found to be fugazi and the paper recanted the story and issued an apology to Combs and Henchmen. The previously credible Philips was left disgraced for having based his findings on the non-credible accounts of James Sabatino, an incarcerated con man.
Well yesterday Phillips was fired becoming the latest casualty of the newspapers budget cuts.
Philips, a 1999 Pulitzer prize winner for his report on the music business corruption had a fixation with the Tupac & Biggie murders and the East/West coast beef it incited.
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