The Los Angeles Times has apologized for reporting that Sean Combs/Puff Daddy/Puffy/Diddy/Your Mom sent the people who shot Tupac Shakur in 1994. (To keep it straight, that wasn’t the attack that killed him, which happened two years later.)

Basically the whole thing was a con perpetuated by some chubby white guy who wanted to be a player, and reporter Chuck Philips bought it. The Smoking Gun of all places did the actual fact-checking.

Diddy, for his part, was not mincing words about the error:

In a statement last week, Combs called the Times report “beyond ridiculous” and “completely false,” saying he had no advance knowledge of the attack on Shakur. “I am shocked that the Los Angeles Times would be so irresponsible as to publish such a baseless and completely untrue story.” Combs’s lawyer demanded a retraction.

And yet, so far the only official correction the Times has admitted was that they got the first name wrong for a lawyer who represented a rap manager. WTF, guys. Imaginary gangstas are so coming after you next.