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added more fuel to the Bad Boy vs. Death Row feud when he released videos 2 of Americaz Most Wanted (with Snoop) and later Hit `Em Up, both of which assassinated the character of Bad Boy, Biggie, Sean "Puffy" Combs, Mobb Deep, and others on the label. He returned to New York in 1996 just three days before he was shot and got in a fight at the MTV Video Awards. His troubles in Las Vegas would turn out to be his last, as after attending a heavyweight boxing match between Mike Tyson and Bruce Seldon, Shakur and Knight got in a scuffle outside of the MGM Grand Hotel with Orlando Anderson (who was later murdered himself). Many speculate what happened afterwards was revenge for what had just happened, as a white Cadillac with four people inside pulled alongside the car Suge was driving at an intersection and one person opened fire. Tupac was shot 4 times, Suge escaped with minor injuries. Six days later, Tupac, in a medical coma, was pronounced dead. His body was later cremated. What followed Tupac's death were and continue to be a string of lawsuits. His mother won the rights from Death Row Records to the unreleased music that Tupac created and it is said there is enough material to do 10 albums. The lawyers for the late Orlando Anderson sued Tupac for $78,000 while Tupac's mother Afeni filed a wrongful death suit against Anderson. There was no love between Afeni and Tupac's record label either, as she not only sued and won the rights to her son's music, but she claims Death Row failed to pay royalties due to Tupac and that when he died he only had about $150,000 to his name and sued the label for over $20 million. The label countered that Tupac owed them $7.1 million at the time of his death for cars, houses, and jewelry. In 1997, anti-rap crusader C. Delores Tucker filed a $16.6 million lawsuit against Tupac after she suffered "great humiliation, mental pain, and suffering" when Shakur made unkind references to her on his 1996 album All E...

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