10 Mysterious Celebrity Deaths That Shocked The World

6. Tim Dog

Speaking of feigning death, rapper Tim Dog may well have faked his own death in February 2013, but for altogether more prosaic reasons - to get out of paying a debt. A reasonably big name in the early 1990s - collaborating with Kool Keith and the Ultramagnetic MCs as well as performing the legendary diss track €˜F*ck Compton€™ that€™s supposed to have kicked off the west coast/east coast beef, feuding with Dr. Dre - the real life Timothy Blair had fallen from grace by 2011, when he was found to have entered into an unlikely second career as an internationally notorious con man. He would plead guilty to charges of grand larceny after being accused of perpetrating an online dating scam that had resulted in a far, far too many women being ripped off for thousands of dollars. One victim, Esther Pilgrim, had been conned out of $32,000: Blair was ordered to reinburse her $19,000 of the money over time, and sentenced to five years probation. It was reported on February 14th 2013 that Tim Dog had died from complications from diabetes. However, Pilgrim alleged that the so called passing of the rapper was actually a scheme to avoid paying her any of the money he owed her, and demanded further investigation. It then transpired that Blair€™s funeral had been cancelled, and that his family had cited religious reasons for their staying out of the limelight and shunning media interviews, stating that they wished to mourn in private. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ytKVMYZvW0 The original online obituary mysteriously vanished. Added to that, it was alleged that shortly after his supposed death, a friend had called his mobile phone and that someone who sounded very much like Tim Dog had answered. No death certificate or autopsy documentation could be found. A warrant was issued for Tim Dog€™s arrest, just in case he was actually still alive - however, in September 2014 it was supposedly conclusively proven that his passing was genuine, a death certificate finally being filed in Atlanta, Georgia. Of course, death certificates are easy to fake, especially if you€™re an internationally notorious con man...