(eurweb) Los Angeles Times writer Chuck Philips, whose article last weekend suggested that Sean "Diddy" Combs and the Notorious B.I.G. had prior knowledge of the 1994 shooting of Tupac Shakur, stands firmly behind his allegations despite a statement from Diddy claiming the report is untrue. During a live chat Tuesday (March 18) on LATimes.com, Philips also reiterated that Biggie was in Nevada at the time of Shakur's 1996 murder in Las Vegas, according to unidentified sources. He also said that Diddy's Bad Boy camp provided insufficient evidence that the rapper (real name: Christopher Wallace) was in New Jersey at the time of Shakur's death. "It has never been proven that Christopher Wallace was not in Las Vegas on the night Tupac was shot," Philips said. "Bad Boy produced some computer-generated documents purporting to place him in a recording studio in New York, but they were not time-stamped. Bad Boy said it was going to produce video of Biggie there. They never did that. I have since learned that federal officials conducted interviews in Las Vegas to determine whether Wallace was present. My sources were there and say he and other East Coast figures were in Las Vegas on the night the Southside Crips killed Tupac." Philips, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1999 for beat reporting, also revealed he would publish two more related stories by the end of the year, although he didn't specify the topics. One is believed to be a report on who is responsible for the death of the Notorious B.I.G.

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