Natania Reuben, who previously revealed that it was Puff who shot her in the face during a 1999 nightclub altercation, accuses the emcee of putting a bounty on her head that forced her to relocate.
- July 9, 2024
AceShowbiz - Embattled Sean "P. Diddy" Combs has faced a new allegation from one of the victims of a New York City nightclub shooting in 1999. Natania Reuben, who previously revealed that it was Puff who shot her in the face, accused the rapper of hiring a hitman to kill her after the incident.
"I was born in Brooklyn [and] I was raised in Brooklyn," Natania said when speaking with "The Art of Dialogue". She added, "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," she continued. "I lived on the corner - there's one on that corner, that corner, one in front of my house, one on the next corner."
Natania then questioned, "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?" She further claimed, "I had businesses. Why would I pick up and just leave everything I knew but for the fact that my life depended on it?"
The woman later emphasized that just because she spoke up against Diddy, it didn't mean that Jamal "Shyne" Barrow, who was sent to prison for the ordeal, was innocent. "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."
Back in April, Shyne addressed Natania's claims during a news conference in Belize. "It opens wounds when you hear the victim saying it was Diddy that shot her," he stated. "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," the former Bad Boy Records signee, who is now the Leader of the Opposition in the Belize House of Representatives, further elaborated. "I said that I was defending myself. I didn't get into who did what, But the victim is telling you who did what."