Rapper Faked Own Death? Tim Dog 'Died' To Avoid Paying Debts To Women On Dating Sites, Says Woman

Hip-hop artist Tim Dog, real name Timothy Blair, has been accused by Mississippi woman Esther Pilgrim of faking his own death to avoid paying her the $19,000 he was ordered to pay her after he swindled her with a "fictitious business deal," for which he was convicted of grand larceny.

Blair was reported by music media outlets like Rolling Stone and The Source to have died in February from complications of diabetes. But after noticing the reports contained little in the way of concrete details regarding his death, Pilgrim sent a friend to Atlanta, the city where Blair was reported to have passed away, to look for a death certificate. No such document existed.

Blair, originally from the Bronx, is best known for his 1991 song "F*** Compton," a diss track aimed at a slew of West Coast hip-hop acts in which Blair aimed blunt if not terribly inventive putdowns at artists like Eazy-E, MC Ren, Dr. Dre and Michel'le.

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The lack of a death certificate convinced Pilgrim, who originally met Blair on an online dating site, that he was pulling another scam. She says she's gotten calls from twenty other people claiming they had been swindled by Blair, too, and estimates that he scammed his way into as much as $2 million from his various victims.

The link to the original story at The Source is now inactive; other reports of his death did not indicate where he died or how news of his death came about.

Ced Gee, a hip-hop producer, A&R man and fellow Bronx native who made the beat for "F*** Compton", the song for which Blair is best known, told a Memphis news channel that he refused to speak at the funeral because his colleague's family could not produce a death certificate. Ced Gee thinks the funeral never happened. The news channel hired a private investigator, who also could find no death record.

On Tuesday, Mississippi judge Steven Jubera issued an arrest warrant for the artist.

A series of 2012 Dateline NBC specials made extensive use of hidden cameras in showing how Blair scammed women he met on dating sites. At the time of his death -- given as February 14 - he was paying Pilgrim back $100 per month.