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Rapper Tim Dog Confirmed Dead After Rumors of Faking Death

09/17/2014
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(Radio.com) The rumors have been confirmed: rapper Tim Dog is indeed dead. Amazingly, it was unclear for over a year if his death was fact or elaborate fiction, until Dateline performed a comprehensive investigative report into the man who was involved in the '90s East vs. West Coast rap wars and, later in life, was exposed as a con man.

The NBC News investigation did not start with a look into his death, however. It was launched after it became clear he was at the center of a Ponzi scheme in 2011 who bilked a single mother from Mississippi. In February of 2013, news broke that Tim Dog had died from a diabetes-related seizure. A memorial service was planned at Glendale Baptist Church in Harlem and a PayPal donation account launched, reportedly to benefit his daughter. But in the months that followed, no death certificate was made available or discovered in his home state.

Many began to suspect his death had been faked. NBC asserts that rumors surfaced on the internet that he had faked his death to avoid repaying the court-ordered $19,000 to the Mississippi woman he had defrauded. Read more here.

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