Posting on Instagram, T.I. and Busta Rhymes shared a screenshot of a debunked news article which quotes ex-CIA agent Bill Oxley as claiming he “infected Marley with cancer”.
According to the Vanguard website: “Oxley is alleged to have claimed the murder of Marley among 17 other assassinations for the American government between 1974 and 1985, at a time when he said the CIA ‘was a law unto itself.'”
“I gave him a pair of Converse All Stars. Size 10. When he tried on the right shoe, he screamed out”, the quote says. “That was it. His life was over right there and then. The nail in the shoe was tainted with cancer viruses and bacteria. If it pierced his skin, which it did, it was goodnight nurse.”
However, the Snopes website has revealed the truth behind it.
“Whether or not there was anything more to Bob Marley’s death than natural causes — and there is no solid evidence to the contrary — we can say with certainty that a CIA agent named “Bill Oxley” did not confess while on his deathbed in Maine to assassinating the singer”, an article states.
Bob Marley died from cancer in 1981 in Miami at the age of 36.
