After the shocking murder of the Notorious B.I.G. in March 1997, Sean Combs 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’s funeral back to his estate, the label’s co-founder alleged in a new Netflix documentary .

Meanwhile, Combs pretended he was personally paying for the extravagant funeral, Kirk Burrowes said in Sean Combs: The Reckoning , which premiered Tuesday. “He was gonna make the funeral be a recoupable charge to Biggie in death,” Burrowes said. “Sean, doing a big show looks good on him. But he’s not gonna tell the world that Biggie was gonna pay for it.”

The Notorious B.I.G (real name Christopher Wallace), was shot to death in Los Angeles on March 9, 1997 — just six months after his West Coast

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