With today (December 28) marking the 15th anniversary of a shooting involving Puff Daddy, Shyne, and Jennifer Lopez at Club New York in Manhattan, one of the victim’s of the shooting unexpectedly spoke out in response to an Instagram post commemorating the date.
Shorty after Christmas in 1999, Puffy and then-girlfriend J. Lo joined Shyne at the club to celebrate the then-21-year old’s upcoming debut album. The shooting occurred after an apparent misunderstanding while Puffy was leaving the club and both the rapper and singer/dancer were arrested after leaving the scene in an SUV where a handgun was later found. While more than one person pointed to Puffy himself as being in possession of the gun, the music mogul’s lawyers, who included Johnnie Cochran, were able to get him acquitted in court. Shyne on the other hand served nearly nine years for assault, gun possession, and reckless endangerment following the incident and Puffy soon after changed his stage name to P. Diddy.
Responding to an Instagram post about the incident from UPNORTHTRIPS, one of the shooting victims, Natania Reuben, wrote that she was shot in the face at the club that night and criticized the IG post for a lack of sympathy for the victims. More than a decade after the incident, a civil suit ended in a settlement for the victims including a $1.8 million payout for Reuben.
Screencaps of Reuben’s comments are available below via Complex.
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I know this is a sh*tty unrelated comment to post and it will make me look bad but goddamn JLo was the most beautiful human to ever live. Sorry, that was all.
just another name on the long list of lives diddy has ruined over the last 3 decades on his way to the top
Could you explain this with sum sort of list perhaps lol
i could but it would look like a giant block of gibberish since dx messed up the c section
15th anniversary of the incident? for real my nigga?
Lol my nigga u noticed that too i see. You kno this world fucked up when we celebrating the anniversary of a club shooting.
@malcolm @Kool D I truly hope your comments are attempts on trolling. If yes, you trolled the hell out of me. Anniversary can be defined as “a day that COMMEMORATES OR CELEBRATES a past event that occurred on the same date of the year as the initial event”. This world is not that f-ed up after all, ey?