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Aubrey O’Day Points Toward Diddy After Keefe D’s Murder Conviction

Sep 2, 2026 · Nolan Strong

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Aubrey O’Day Points Toward Diddy After Keefe D’s Murder Conviction

Aubrey O’Day believes Keefe D’s murder conviction could place Diddy closer to criminal scrutiny in Tupac Shakur’s 1996 killing.

The former Danity Kane singer responded after Las Vegas jurors held Keefe D responsible despite prosecutors never accusing him of firing the fatal shots.

“Today’s verdict makes one thing painfully clear: you do not have to be the person who pulls the trigger to be held responsible for a murder,” O’Day wrote. “A jury found Keffe D guilty of orchestrating Tupac Shakur’s killing nearly 30 years later.”

O’Day then raised a question that appeared aimed directly at her former Bad Boy Records boss.

“So now the question becomes: if evidence establishes that anyone else financed, ordered, encouraged, or knowingly set that murder in motion, why should their accountability be any different?” she asked. “Justice cannot stop with the person in the car. It has to follow the evidence wherever and to whomever-it leads.”

O’Day closed her statement by directing readers toward Sean Combs: The Reckoning, the Netflix documentary featuring allegations about Diddy’s career and conduct.

“Thirty years is a long time. The truth deserves the entire story,” O’Day wrote. “Watch Sean Combs, The Reckoning on @netflix, you can see all of those who conspired to have pac murdered.”

A Clark County jury convicted Keefe D, whose legal name is Duane Davis, of first-degree murder with a deadly weapon following an 11-day trial.

According to Reuters’ account of the verdict, jurors deliberated nearly three hours before returning the first murder conviction connected to Tupac’s death.

Prosecutors argued Keefe D supplied the gun and directed retaliation after Tupac’s entourage attacked his nephew Orlando Anderson inside the MGM Grand.

The state relied heavily upon Keefe D’s interviews, memoir and secretly recorded conversations because investigators presented little physical evidence linking him to the shooting.

Those recordings also exposed an unresolved allegation involving Diddy that was not necessary for jurors to decide Keefe D’s guilt.

During a 2008 police interview, Keefe D claimed Diddy offered $1 million to eliminate Tupac and Death Row Records co-founder Suge Knight.

Retired LAPD detective Greg Kading testified about that interview while prosecutors played recordings containing Keefe D’s claims before the jury.

AllHipHop previously reported that Keefe D described providing gang protection for Diddy during the violent Bad Boy and Death Row conflict.

Keefe D also claimed he expected payment following Tupac’s death and sent Eric “Von Zip” Martin to collect the alleged money.

However, prosecutors presented no public evidence showing Diddy transferred that money, communicated a direct murder order or participated in the Las Vegas attack.

Former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani explained that Nevada law could reach somebody who hires, commands, encourages or otherwise obtains another person’s participation in murder.

“Combs could theoretically be charged for Tupac’s death even if he was nowhere near Las Vegas and never touched the murder weapon,” Rahmani told People. “Combs serving time in an unrelated case doesn’t change that.”

The legal possibility remains theoretical because Diddy has never been charged or publicly identified by Las Vegas police as a suspect in Tupac’s murder.

Keefe D also reversed his earlier account before trial and said he did not believe Diddy had anything to do with the killing.

O’Day’s suspicions follow years of allegations that Diddy exploited his authority over her while controlling Danity Kane and their Bad Boy contracts.

“I absolutely felt that I was fired for not participating sexually with the boss,” O’Day said in the Netflix documentary.

She also displayed sexually explicit emails allegedly sent by Diddy and described his conduct toward her as predatory and tied to professional opportunity.

The documentary included an affidavit from an unnamed witness who claimed O’Day appeared heavily intoxicated during an alleged sexual assault involving Diddy and another man.

“Does this mean I was raped? Is that what this means?” O’Day said while reading the account. “I don’t even know if I was raped. And I don’t want to know.”

Diddy has categorically denied sexually assaulting anyone and maintains that The Reckoning presents anonymous accusations through a biased and unfair narrative.

Diddy’s representatives also rejected any Tupac connection, stating, “Diddy had absolutely nothing to do with the Tupac murder. He did not pull the trigger or set it up.”

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