Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs accuser Ashley Parham made explosive allegations Sunday about the music mogul saying he was involved in the murder of Tupac Shakur.
Ashley Parham and her attorney, Ariel Mitchell-Kidd, spoke with Ashleigh Banfield on NewsNation in her first broadcast interview. Parham claimed Diddy raped her with a TV remote, and told the host she was also sexually assaulted by his associates. She alleged that Diddy confessed to putting a hit on Shakur after the alleged attack and bragged about playing a role in the 1996 murder of the iconic artist.
Law enforcement arrested Duane “Keffe D” Davis in connection with the murder in September 2023. A court upheld the charge against him Tuesday, WCSC reported. His trial is set for March 17.
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – NOVEMBER 10: P Diddy is seen out and about on November 10, 2023 in London, United Kingdom. (Photo by MEGA/GC Images)
NEW YORK – JULY 23: (L-R) Rapper Tupac Shakur poses for a portrait at Club Amazon on July 23, 1993 in New York, New York. (Photo by Al Pereira/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
Parham recalled the details of the alleged rape with Banfield and said the conversation after became centered around Shakur’s death.
“They told me to sit down. So I sat down on this makeshift bench out of buckets and of plywood and I just had to sit there and just kind of listen to Sean Combs brag about what he did to me and that he’s gotten away with more serious crimes, and no one would believe me,” Parham told NewsNation.
“And he, he mentioned Tupac,” she alleged.
Banfield requested clarification on the shocking allegation.
NEW YORK, NY – NOVEMBER 20: Sean Diddy Combs attends Deleon Tequila Launch Party at Cedar Lake on November 20, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by John Lamparski/Getty Images)
“And I just want to go back to that one detail: Sean Combs said to you that he killed Tupac or that he had Tupac killed? Which, which one was it?” Banfield asked Parham.
Parham replied by alleging, “He paid to have Tupac killed.”
“That’s what he said in that moment in the backyard, that he paid to have Tupac killed,” Parham asked.
MILWAUKEE – SEPTEMBER 1994: Rapper Tupac Shakur performs at the Mecca Arena in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in September 1994. (Photo By Raymond Boyd/Getty Images)
“Yes, and he was bragging about it,” she went on to say in the interview with NewsNation. (RELATED: ‘Sell Me To Anyone’: Diddy’s Inner Circle Speaks Out In Fiery New Documentary)
Shakur was shot in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada, September 7, 1996, at 11:15 p.m. The 25-year-old rapper was in a car waiting at a red light at East Flamingo Road and Koval Lane. The driver of the vehicle, Marion ‘Suge’ Knight, was grazed by a bullet in the shooting. Shakur was shot twice in the chest, once in the arm, and once in the thigh. He died from his injuries six days later. His murder sent shockwaves through the music industry, and has long been the topic of conspiracy theories and unanswered questions.
