SEAN DIDDY COMBS PUSHES MUSIC, FASHION. FRAGRANCE AND VODKA. BUT HIS FATHER PUSHED A DIFFERENT KIND OF PRODUCT UNTIL THE DAY ONE OF HIS GANGSTER FRIENDS TOOK HIM FOR A RIDE. VIBE INVESTIGATES THE MURDER OF MELVIN COMBS

A car, parked on 106 Street and Central Park West. After taking a look inside the car as the cab sped by, she had the cab drop her off at Small’s Paradise.

“They killed Melvin!” she screamed as soon as she stepped inside the bar. “I just came from down by the park and saw him in his car. Somebody killed him!”

Claude Helton, an associate of Melvin’s, slid off his barstool and made his way outside.

“Had to go see what she was talking about,” Helton says today.

Helton and a few of his partners drove down to 106th. The police had not arrived; no crowd had yet formed, and

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