A gold, diamond and ruby ring (pictured) designed and worn by rap legend Tupac Shakur just days before he was shot dead has sold for a record $ 1 million at auction in New York 

SOURCE: dailymail.co.uk 

A gold, diamond, and ruby ring designed and worn by rap legend Tupac Shakur just days before he was shot dead has sold for a record $ 1 million at auction in New York. 

The winning bid for the custom-made ring was well above Sotheby’s pre-sale estimate of between £200,000 and $300,000 and becomes the most valuable hip-hop artifact ever sold, the auction house said. 

The New York-born rapper wore the ring during his final public appearance at the MTV Video Music Awards on September 4, 1996 – nine days before the 25-year-old was shot dead by an unidentified assailant in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas. 

Tupac wore the ring (pictured on his left hand) during his final public appearance at the MTV Video Music Awards on September 4, 1996.

The auction comes as cops investigating Shakur’s murder said they will now conduct forensic tests on several .40 caliber bullets found at former Crips gang member Keefe D’s home during a raid last week. 

The Nevada home is owned by Duane Davis’s – also known as Keefe D – wife Paula Clemons and was raided on Monday last week as part of an investigation into Shakur’s murder. 

Duane Davis, 60, also known as ‘Keefe D,’ is reportedly linked to the house that was raided on Monday. He has claimed it was his nephew Orlando ‘Baby Lane’ Anderson who shot Tupac 

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