The Los Angeles Times today (March 27) released statements apologizing for an article that linked Sean “Diddy” Combs and Jimmy “Henchman” Rosemond (The Game’s manager) in the 1994 ambush of Tupac Shakur.

Tupac was robbed and shot five times at the Quad Recording Studio in New York in 1994.

The Times ran an article last week claiming that Diddy and Rosemond planned the attack after Tupac refused to sign with Diddy's Bad Boy Records.

The article, which was written by Pulitzer Prize winning writer Chuck Philips, cited FBI reports as the major source of its information.

The Smoking Gun would challenge The Times' article yesterday (March 26) proving that the FBI documents that the newspaper used for its controversial article  were forged by a delusional and currently jailed scam artist named James Sabatino.

“In relying on documents that I now believe were fake, I failed to do my job,” said Philips via his  statement.  “I'm sorry.”

“We should not have let ourselves be fooled,” said The Times' Deputy Managing Editor Marc Duvoisin via a separate statement.  “[It] was much my fault as Chuck's.  I deeply regret that we let our readers down.”

Russ Stanton, The Times' editor, apologized yesterday (March 26) saying that they have launched an internal investigation into the authenticity of the documents.

Diddy and Rosemond both denied having any involvement in Tupac's ambush when the Times story surfaced.