News : SHYNE BRANDED 'CON ARTIST' BY VICTIM OF 1999 NIGHTCLUB SHOOTING: 'HE'S FAR FROM INNOCENT'

Shyne has been called a “con artist” by Natania Reuben, the victim of his 1999 nightclub shooting that also involved Diddy.

Speaking to The Art of Dialogue, Reuben clarified her previous comments about the former Bad Boy rapper not being the man who pulled the trigger that night.

“I said on my TikTok, Shyne did not shoot me because he didn’t. But Shyne is a con artist,” she said. “Everybody’s like, ‘Oh, we knew Shyne was innocent.’ No, you don’t know a damn thing because he’s far from innocent.”

For the shooting, Shyne was sentenced to a decade in prison while Diddy was found not guilty. The Belize rapper also ordered to pay compensation to Reuben.

Reuben claims that Shyne is attempting to capitalize on the renewed interest in the case due to the sexual assault allegations against Diddy and use it to help him become prime minister of his home country.

She said: “He’s going to jockey off of me saying Shyne didn’t shoot me to try to leverage himself to get that prime minister seat […] You ain’t nothing but a penny-ante shyster, a shady car salesman, a dressed-up fraud, a liar.”

Reuben also claimed that she was not paid compensation by the rapper: “You still owe me money. In the settlement, Shyne was responsible… He didn’t have the money to pay.”

While Shyne did not cough up the money, Diddy paid Reuben a sum of almost $2 million following the shooting, though she claimed that the Bad Boy Records founder continued to harass her — something he denied.

Shyne recently addressed Reuben’s comments that he was not the person that shot her.

“It opens wounds when you hear the victim saying it was Diddy that shot her. That is what is most remarkable,” he said during a news conference in Belize.

“I’ve been saying this all along. Everyone knew all along that I was the fall guy, but my political enemies and detractors tried to make me into this criminal, but everyone knew that I was a young kid that took the fall.

“I’m just saying that I maintained my innocence all this time. I said that I was defending myself. I didn’t get into who did what. But the victim is telling you who did what.”