someone who had essentially been at Shan com's side for years now seems to suggest the rapper business Mogul and now indicted criminal defendant may have had something to do with the killing of Notorious BIG we're going to break down this claim made in a brand new documentary about combms and we're going to discuss it all with renowned criminal defense attorney to the Stars Brian mcmonagle welcome to sidebar presented by law on crime I'm Jesse Weber one of the greatest unsolved crimes in the last 50 years has been the murder of notorious biig Christopher Wallace happened
back on March 9th 1997 the rapper was gunned down in a driveby shooting out in Los Angeles after Vibe magazine Soul Train Awards party at the Peterson Automotive Museum and though there have been theories and speculation and rumors no arrests have ever been made in connection with this killing but now an accusation has surfaced that perhaps sha Diddy Holmes the man we have been focusing upon a lot lately could have been involved somehow in this shooting and this insinuation comes from Jean deal now Gan deal is com's former bodyguard who has been quite outspoken about
comes recently especially after comes has been accused of sexual assault and multiple lawsuits and currently sits in a Brooklyn Detention Center awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking racketeering and prostitution charges as trial is currently scheduled for May 5th 2025 but you see Mr deal who was reportedly com's Bodyguard from 1991 to 2005 sat down for an interview in a new documentary called Diddy the making of a bad boy that aired on peacock and I want to read you what deal said because when he was asked about Colmes and Biggie he remarks so did he directly
have something to do with it he could have and he bases that off of his perception that Colmes was maybe acting a little weird leading up to the four-year-old's death he says on the show the week which biggie was murdered he was just acting real anxious and trying to get big at this party and what's crazy was big was telling people he had to be in London but puff was telling people he ain't going to London that whole week so you fast forward to the day of the party and deal says I'm sitting up at
the Beverly Hills Hotel and I get a phone call it's about 9:00 and they say Jean get ready we go into the vibe party I was like we go into this party we don't have no security but of course according to deal he tried to warn comes that this probably wasn't a good idea he says yo puff I got some Intel bruh he said what I said yo man if we go to this party tonight one of us going to get killed somebody going to die because now we at East Coast West Coast beef he
said yo Jean I don't want to hear that s so we all jump in the car now this East Coast West Coast beef was in reference to the infamous rivalry in the hip-hop world that lasted several years in the 90s between West Coast Death Row Records so we're talking about Suge Knight Dr Dre Tupac Shakur who by the way was tragically killed in 1996 in Las Vegas actually some believe that biggie was killed as retribution for Tupac's death and then on the other side we have the East Coast we have Bad Boy Entertainment Bad Boy
Records Colmes label with his artist Biggie and when you think Diddy and Biggie you're thinking hits like More Money More Problems it's all about the Benjamin's Victory so deal explains what happens when they all leave the vibe partk quote I was in a car with puff big was in his own car and the next thing you know you hear pow pow pow pow the FBI has stated by the way that bigie was in the passenger seat of a Chevy Suburban when a Chevy andala pulled up at a red light a shooter just opened fire deal
says after biggie was shot four times deal tried to make sure that biggie didn't go to sleep but kept talking to keep him alive and according to deal they told him they were taking him to the hospital to which deal claims biggie replied just do it and deal says in the documentary that's the last thing I heard big say and they said the hospital was two blocks away and that's the longest two blocks I ever seen in my life hey everybody so I want to thank Morgan and Morgan for sponsoring this episode of sidebar always
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way less than an hour after arriving there and deal explains to comes what's going on with biggie so puff ran out the hospital door and he grabbed grab my arm he said Jean we got to pray we got to pray we got to pray and I knocked his hands off of me I said Pray For What and then he basically says that Biggie's dead bro he just was stunned he just seemed like he had this look in his eye like he couldn't believe it that he was dead he couldn't believe it now the documentary makes
clear that Colmes has always denied involvement in the killings of Biggie in Tupac and in fact Diddy's legal council issued a statement after the Airing of this documentary saying sha Colmes unequivocally denies the basis allegations being circulated in connection with this documentary so I want to try to make sense of all of this with renowned criminal defense attorney Brian mcmonagle of the firer mcmonagle Perry mchu mhach and Davis is he has famously represented Bill Cosby Meek Mill uh Brian so good to see you you're a friend of the show I'm so happy to see you
happy new year I think you're probably going to be the last person I say Happy New Year too I think we're at the point where I can't say it anymore isn't that a rule say it two weeks right what what is it you can't say it two weeks after yeah I think we might have uh we might have exceeded the time uh the time limit but Happy New Year happy New Year so you're my you're my last happy New Year so um what do you make of these claims you know let me be funny for
or not not funny for a minute no biggie No Deal uh I I I don't I don't see this um you know this is a 30-year-old accusation um and it it it it seems to me that it's getting to a point where uh did is concerned where it's dangerously getting to piling on um in a way that I think might just help him uh as I thought about this last night once I saw the the article in the post uh and was referenced on the documentary it seems to me that there are a lot of
people now that are jumping on this bandwagon of making um what I would say are baseless allegations against this guy um you know this one in particular just smells to me um did this guy say any of this stuff over the past 30 years to anybody in law enforcement has there ever been any kind of a suggestion that he was involved by law enforcement it seemed to me that that he was in a close relationship with Biggie and that if anything he was on the other side uh of this uh East Coast West Coast fight
so I I the one thing that I that I would say about it is just bringing this kind of Full Circle to this upcoming trial they're going to be looking for things like this the defense in this trial they're going to be looking for accusations that are stretched they're going to looking for looking for moments that they can disprove things and make no mistake about it there'll be a few things like that and hope that that'll give them the kind of um strength uh and ability to diffuse use perhaps as many of these allegations as
they can where this indictment is concerned do you I mean you think the name Notorious BIG is going to come up at his criminal trial at all I I don't think I don't think this I don't think this is going to have anything to do with his criminal trial right but it's got everything to do with jury selection it's got every and it's got everything to do with just where he stands in the eyes of the public and perhaps his jury as he starts a trial because in other words what you're saying is this doumentary
these words that could taint a future jury there's no question about it I mean people watch these shows I mean some of these shows are great obviously and people watch them and now they come into this trial not only with the allegations that are made against him in the indictment but the idea that he might have been a a party to a murder and so it's it's dangerous for the defense just in terms of jury selection and this is going to be something that they're going to have to use in jury selection to see if
anybody's watched these documentaries listen to them and these will be jurors are going to have to strike you know as they try to prepare for this trial can I uh give you a little bit more background on this to to why I think this is an interesting that's coming that's coming out here because yeah first of all you mentioned what did genan deal say in the past well Gan deal apparently said back in 2003 on the art of dialogue show wasn't no driveby the car was standing there at the corner the stories they tell is
not truthful he previously told Vlad TV and apparently this is backed up by an FBI investigation file that was obtained by the sun back in 2018 and that is that it's possible Colmes was the intended target that's radically different than what we're saying now that Shawn Colmes was the was the intended target that night yeah it's it's it's it's night and day I mean that's that's that's really my point I mean you're Reinventing history at some at some point you know before know it we're going to get you know I I I think that if
he was old enough they might they might try and put him on the grassy all Jess um I I just I just think at some point in time um you know there someone is going to cry on one of these things and this might be the time I mean here's here's a situation where he goes from a potential Target in a driveby shooting to now a culprit in the murder um I just it it's it's Troublesome if I'm putting my my myself in the shoes of his Lord because I am worried now that all of
this is just this Avalanche of publicity all negative nothing positive um that you got to deal with in addition to the facts of your case well I I would I would counter that by saying this look there there's no evidence to suggest that sha Colmes was involved in the death of Biggie and I would but but and I'm going to read something in a minute from from Rolling Stone Stone article the argument would be if at any point in time in Sean com's life if he was really going to be investigated for what he did
in the past right now after being hit with so many lawsuits after being hit with criminal charges after having his bail denied he's locked up you're seeing more and more people come out this would be the time that people would come forward with information about what they know of him in the past and we know there's no statute of limitations uh on murder so the reason people might be looking at this and saying well if something we're going to get answers about Biggie and maybe hmes role whatever that might be alleged role um you know
now would be the time the reason I say that let's just keep that in mind because there was an article that came out uh by Rolling Stone last year and it was amid all the drama surrounding comes this was before his arrest and it details how Colmes liked Tupac shakori admired his talent but according to a source who was close to Biggie and other bad boy artists Tupac didn't respect Shan comes that both he and Biggie saw Colmes as a quote corny executive and when this bomb develop between the two artists former bad boy president
Kirk burough says Colmes became jealous and reportedly biggie was planning to leave bad boy before he died now I know a lot of this is speculation people trying to read through the lines and trying to see if something else uh is there but again you know again going back to the idea of if we were to have answers about com's alleged involvement uh in what happened to biggie I guess people are saying now would be the time yeah I mean that's that's certainly one way of looking at it the way that I would look at
it would be now would be the time where people would be piling on with false accusations and I'm really not trying to make the case for Combs I I I don't represent them but I think there's always a danger in um scale accusations particularly in a case like this where it's easy to pile on and easy to say anything you want about the guy um and because everybody's listening for the negative and no one's listening for the positive so I hear you um I just think that you know this is kind of part and parcel
with what we've been seeing over the past several months in this case which is just this Avalanche of bad publicity some legitimate perhaps and some completely incredible and I'd have to put this one on that incredible side yeah by the way I mean there are those who say it's the complete opposite so for example hired LAPD detective Greg cading alleged that biggie was actually killed by a gang member and Associate of Death Row Records exec Suge Knight this was again revenge for the death of Tupac who was killed 6 months earlier author Randall Sullivan also
suggested that Knight was responsible even worked claimed that he he worked with a bent LAPD officer to carry out the killing although to be clear about that one the main source for Sullivan's story apparently had mental health issues and memory issues but you know there's two competing narratives about what might have happened you mentioned something interesting about jury selection do they ask these potential jurors and and by the way my understanding is based on the current schedule the jury questionnaire forms are due April 11th what do those forms look like what are they asked on
those jury questionnaire forms to prospective jurors and once prospective jurors are brought in for a more thorough Vader process are they asked everything they know about Shan Coles are they asked maybe about East Coast West Coast Tupac Biggie are they asked those questions well the first thing that'll happen is both sides will submit them and a judge will make a decision as to what's going to what the real questionnaire is going to look like um from the defense side the more the better the more areas you can probe in a questionnaire the better and so
you'll see every question Under the Sun particularly as it relates to Publications newspaper articles documentaries and the like um asking jurors perhaps to list everyone they've seen asking jurors if they've seen this one or that one now whether or that that submission ever gets to a jury remains to be seen uh because at the end of the day the judge is going to take uh the government's submission and any objections the government has to what the defense is proposing and then ultimately they'll bring everybody in they'll bring a panel of a hundred or perhaps in
this case a couple hundred and they'll have them fill out the questionnaires whatever they look like and then each s will get time to review those questionnaires perhaps a day or so to look at them and then jury selection will begin um and and a lot of times what they'll do in these high-profile cases it's been my experience anyway is they'll they'll have the government and the defense get together and see if they can agree after looking at the questionnaires that there ought to be a pot that they just put what I'll say are going
to be excluded jurors in so they don't even have to bother with them during individual voer when they get into the courtroom but it's really going to be up to this judge how he wants to do it or how she wants to do it I think we have a male judge stilled to this Cas yep yeah and um you know my guess is there'll be a very very lengthy questionnaire that ultimately gets to these jurors um and if I'm you know if I'm the defense Council in this case and they've got preeminent Council in this
case they're going to be asking everything under the sun you know there were allegations in this indictment and also specified in a lot of the lawsuits that Sean Colmes is essentially a gangster right that he's operating criminal Enterprise that involves guns and are these beefs that he has with other people so I'm curious to see if anything like Suge Knight or Tupac or or biggie comes into the course of the trial what I add i d have a question and I think it's important for you to to clear it up here there are those who
say well wait a minute you know guys listen they just raided his homes last year they got a collection of all this evidence who knows what they found how does it work if they found something investigators found something during their search so they're searching for evidence of sex trafficking and racketeering and during the course of their search they find something else um a would we have known about it by right by now right if they found evidence that maybe really did link them to to a murder wouldn't we know about that right now maybe not
you tell me how does it work with if they find something during the course of the search that maybe they didn't intend to find well it happens quite often and it'll it'll result if the evidence is substantial enough and corroborated enough to perhaps a separate indictment um I would think you'd know about it here because there's been a huge exchange of Discovery I'm sure already and will continue and unless there is some effort made by the government to seal certain evidence because it's not part of this indictment and it wouldn't be part of any defense
strategy but it might be the subject of a new grand jury that's going on somewhere um you might not see it and I'm not saying that happened here but every now and then they'll go looking for you know they'll go looking for uh thefts and and all kinds of other crimes and they'll find something that leads to something much larger and perhaps it could even be a homicide I wouldn't expect that here but um right you never know you never know and let me just end on this point again no evidence to connect sha comes
to the death of Biggie and I will tell you I mean in my perspective I've always just seen them as Incredibly Close I mean I remember as a kid when comes released I'll be missing you you know that tribute to bigie um after Biggie's death and and by the way you know the he spoke um at his funeral service and by the way just talking about the impact that Christopher Wallace biggie left so his body was driven in a hearse through Brooklyn and several thousand people they showed up to Mor and pay their respects that's
how much of an influence he had you remember that it was reported by the New York Times that his service was attended by more than 350 people included flavor flave Mary J blig Queen Latifa mayor David dkin of course com spoke so you know I understand people still want answers to this because he still left such an impactful Legacy and the death of and his death at 24 years old is just such a tragedy no question about it and you know you put it that way as I think about it imagine if if um you're
you're you're you're Sean and you're sitting there in a jail cell facing these enormous um allegations against you and you pick up or you get the opportunity to hear that th now somebody somewhere is suggesting you had something to do with a close friend's death um got to be tough stuff I got to tell you uh for a guy who certainly would seem to me uh to be innocent of that accusation yep we will continue to Monitor and see what happens but it you know it made its way in a big documentary and uh oh
by the way I should tell you um just real quick about the documentary and whether any of the producers have any liability here um let me ask you about this do the producers of this documentary put themselves in any hot water because uh Ari Mark who is the executive producer of the doc told the New York Post we were really careful about making sure that we weren't saying necessarily that these things happened or that these things are necessarily true but did the documentary you know the words of Jean deal any trouble there well I wouldn't
I wouldn't say for the producers they're only you know they're only providing what is being said um but if they take it the next step they got to walk a careful line there uh because the next thing they could be hit with is a defamation action and and um I'm guessing that that that their in-house counsil made sure they walked that line and and put as many caveats as they could into it not suggesting that this was an allegation against Coles but better be careful particularly when you're dealing with something like this yep Brian mcmonagle
of the firm mcmonagle Perry McHugh mhak Davis thank you so much for coming on really appreci apprciate it sir good to seeing you happy New Year all right everybody that's all we have for you right now here on sidebar thank you so much for joining us and as always please subscribe on Apple podcast Spotify YouTube wherever you get your podcasts I'm Jesse Weber I'll speak to you next time
