Diddy‘s reputation has been called into question yet again as he is now being accused of commissioning a hit on one of his most outspoken critics.
Natania Reuben survived a gunshot wound to the face during a 1999 nightclub altercation involving the mogul, who in turn settled an ensuing civil lawsuit by paying her an estimated $1.8 million. Even though Bad Boy Records signee Shyne was sent to prison for the ordeal, she still maintains that the label boss was the one who fired the bullet that struck her.
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In a new interview clip published by The Art Of Dialogue on Tuesday (July 2), she alleged that the businessman even put a bounty on her head after the incident — this, she claims, forced her to relocate.
“I was born in Brooklyn [and] I was raised in Brooklyn,” she said. “I had no intentions of leaving, and probably had this [not] happened, I probably would have never left, but when the District Attorney’s office gets information from one of their confidential informant sources saying that there’s a bag on my head, and I’m calling the District Attorney’s office and I’m calling everybody because I look out my window where I was living in Canarsie, Brooklyn and there’s four, stretched, blacked-out SUVs — I lived on the corner — there’s one on that corner, that corner, one in front of my house, one on the next corner.
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“What should I do? Sit there and wait for them to come get me or submit to the will of people who have my best interest and want to move me and my family to preserve my safety? […] I had businesses. Why would I pick up and just leave everything I knew but for the fact that my life depended on it?”
During the same chat, Reuben also made it clear that he criticism of Diddy does not mean she is advocating for Shyne’s innocence.
“I said on my TikTok, Shyne did not shoot me because he didn’t, but Shyne is a con artist,” she said. “Everybody’s like, ‘Oh, we knew Shyne was innocent.’ No, you don’t know a damn thing because he’s far from innocent.”
The 45-year-old rapper-turned-politician was sentenced to a decade in prison back in 2001 whereas his mentor was found not guilty. He was released from lockup in 2009.
The Belizean statesman recently addressed the aforementioned comments about his former business associate being the one responsible for shooting Reuben in the face.
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“It opens wounds when you hear the victim saying it was Diddy that shot her,” he said during a news conference earlier this year. “I’ve been saying this all along. Everyone knew all along that I was the fall guy, but my political enemies and detractors tried to make me into this criminal, but everyone knew that I was a young kid that took the fall.
“I’m just saying that I maintained my innocence all this time. I said that I was defending myself. I didn’t get into who did what, But the victim is telling you who did what.”
