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Photos: Sexiest Magazine CoversThe L.A. Times publicly apologized to Sean "Diddy" Combs for lying on him about his involvement regarding a 1994 attack on late Rapper Tupac in which he was shot.
The Times apologized for using FAKE documents to prove their story.
"The bottom line is that the documents we relied on should not have been used," Editor Russ Stanton said in a story posted Wednesday night on the newspaper's Web site. "We apologize both to our readers and to those referenced in the documents ... and in the story."
Pulitzer-prize winning reporter Chuck Philips, who wrote the story, and his supervisor, Deputy Managing Editor Marc Duvoisin, also apologized.
The apologies followed an investigation launched by Stanton after The Smoking Gun Web site reported earlier in the day that the paper was conned by a prisoner who doctored the documents.
Combs denied that he had any prior knowledge of or involvement in the robbery and shooting of Shakur at a New York recording studio. He and other subjects of the story claimed they had been defamed by the newspaper.
The Smoking Gun said the documents seemed phony because they appeared to be written on a typewriter instead of a computer and included blacked-out sections not typically found in such documents, among other problems.
The Web site claimed the documents were fabricated by a prison inmate with a history of exaggerating his place in the rap music world.
OK "Diddy" you proved me wrong. My Bad!
Obviously you do STILL have it.
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Sources: MSNBC News, L.A.Times, thesmokinggun.com, http://votemecool.blogspot.com/2008/03/diddy-wins-again.html
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