Suge Knight Claims Tupac’s Ashes Were Smoked in Las Vegas Casino Hotel Room

A bizarre new claim from Marion “Suge” Knight has overshadowed the opening days of the murder trial of Duane “Keffe D” Davis, the man accused of orchestrating the 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur. In a recent interview with TMZ, Knight alleged that Tupac’s cremains were rolled into blunts and smoked by his friends and family members in a Las Vegas hotel room shortly after the rapper’s death.

Knight said the scene unfolded in the hotel room rented by Tupac’s mother, Afeni Shakur, soon after her son died on Sept. 13, 1996. The most likely location is the Golden Nugget, where Tupac’s biological father Billy Garland claimed he met Afeni on the night of Tupac’s death.

“I think I hooked up with Afeni down at the Golden Nugget,” Garland told XXL in 2011.

The Tupac smoke-out was Afeni’s idea, according to Knight.

Smoke Him if You Got Him

According to Knight, the strange farewell began with an equally strange scramble to cremate Tupac’s body. Knight — who was in the black BMW with Tupac when gunfire erupted at Flamingo Road and Koval Lane — told TMZ that Afeni wanted her son cremated immediately.

Knight said he contacted a funeral home worker later that evening, but the man told him he was booked for at least the next several days. So Knight made him an offer he couldn’t refuse.

According to Knight, he obtained the man’s home address and arrived carrying two bags of cash: one containing $200,000, the other $1 million. He said he first offered the smaller amount, but when the man refused, he offered the full $1.2 million.

Knight said the man accepted and cremated Tupac that night.

Puff, Puff, Pass

Knight claims he passed on smoking his friend’s remains because he was on probation and feared that testing positive for marijuana could violate the terms of his release.

Tupac died six days after being shot on Sept. 7, 1996, in an attack that remains one of hip‑hop’s most scrutinized crimes. Knight survived the shooting, and his accounts — often contradictory over the years — continue to fuel speculation about what happened both before and after the killing.

Davis, long known to investigators as a witness to the shooting, is now the only person ever charged in connection with Tupac’s death. Knight told TMZ he believes Davis was not the only person involved.

Knight is currently serving a 28-year prison sentence at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego County, having pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter after intentionally running over and killing a Compton businessman with his vehicle in January 2015.

Though his name appears on the prosecution’s witness list as the only surviving eyewitness from inside the car, Knight has publicly stated that he wants no part of the trial.