Sean "Diddy" Combs was embroiled in controversy long before his 2025 sex trafficking trial. As a key figure in the East Coast-West Coast gangster rap wars of the 1990s, persistent conspiracy theories have linked Diddy to the 1996 shooting of Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas. He has also been accused of having some involvement in the murder of his former protege The Notorious B.I.G. (a.k.a. Biggie Smalls) in March 1997. Diddy (a.k.