{"id":168211,"date":"2025-12-04T19:10:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T19:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/168211\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T19:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T19:10:09","slug":"sean-combs-allegedly-charged-biggies-funeral-back-to-rappers-estate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/168211\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Combs Allegedly Charged Biggie’s Funeral Back to Rapper’s Estate"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAfter the shocking murder of the Notorious B.I.G.<\/a> in March 1997, Sean Combs<\/a> planned a send-off fit for a king. But once he learned of the steep cost, Combs decided to bill the entire cost of Biggie\u2019s funeral back to his estate, the label\u2019s co-founder alleged in a new Netflix documentary<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tMeanwhile, Combs pretended he was personally paying for the extravagant funeral, Kirk Burrowes said in Sean Combs: The Reckoning, which premiered Tuesday. \u201cHe was gonna make the funeral be a recoupable charge to Biggie in death,\u201d Burrowes said. \u201cSean, doing a big show looks good on him. But he\u2019s not gonna tell the world that Biggie was gonna pay for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Notorious B.I.G (real name Christopher Wallace), was shot to death in Los Angeles on March 9, 1997 \u2014\u00a0just six months after his West Coast friend turned rival Tupac Shakur was similarly gunned down in Las Vegas. (Wallace\u2019s murder remains unsolved, while known L.A. gang leader Duane \u201cKeefe D\u201d Davis is set to stand trial next year for his alleged role in Shakur\u2019s death. He has pleaded not guilty.)\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tOn March 18, 1997, thousands of fans packed the streets to pay their respects to the Brooklyn rapper, as a hearse with his coffin inside rolled through the borough. The entire Bad Boy family, including Wallace\u2019s wife, Faith Evans, and his group Junior M.A.F.I.A., were in attendance at the star-studded funeral at the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel on the Upper East Side.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tPassing off the cost of the funeral was not the only shady move Combs pulled after Wallace\u2019s death, Burrowes claimed. Combs allegedly tried to change some of the terms of Wallace\u2019s recording contract posthumously.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cSean wanted me to change the agreement to more favorable terms for Bad Boy, and [Wallace\u2019s] family and mother would not know,\u201d Burrowes said. \u201cAnd since [Wallace] had signed the agreement, [Combs] wanted those changes to come from out of the center of the agreement and have those pages replaced with the other terms. I said, \u2018That\u2019s not right. I\u2019m not doing it.\u2019\u201d A few months later, Burrowes was fired.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd when it came to a Rolling Stone cover opportunity in 1997, Combs advocated for himself while Burrowes pushed for Wallace. \u201cI was telling Sean, \u2018Let\u2019s make it Biggie. You still have a chance [for a cover in the future],\u2019\u201d Burrowes previously told Rolling Stone<\/a>. \u201cHe\u2019s like \u2018No, he\u2019s dead. I\u2019m putting out [Combs\u2019 debut album, No Way Out] in July. I need to be on the cover of Rolling Stone.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After the shocking murder of the Notorious B.I.G. in March 1997, Sean Combs planned a send-off fit for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,1094,111,139,69,37297,109334],"class_list":{"0":"post-168211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-netflix","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-sean-combs","15":"tag-the-notorious-b-i-g"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}