Timothy "Tim Dog" Blair reportedly died from a seizure on Feb. 14, originally reported by the Source, but a Tennessee woman claims he's still alive and owes her $20,000, reported the Daily Mail.
According to the Guardian, a warrant has been issued for Blair's arrest on suspicion that he faked his own death. The Source's obituary has also been taken off their website.
"I need proof," Steven Jubera, a prosecutor in Hernando, Mississippi, told CBS Memphis affiliate WREG. "I need a death certificate showing that he's dead, because as far as I'm concerned, he's alive."
Blair, better known by his stage name "Tim Dog," was a popular rapper in the 1990's. Two years ago, he pleaded guilty to grand larceny for defrauding Mississippi resident Esther Pilgrim, KABC reported at the time.
The two met on an online dating website and Blair reportedly told her he needed investors to restart his music career. Blair left her with $32,000 in credit card debt and a judge ordered him to pay back $20,000 in monthly payments of at least $100.
Pilgrim told WREG that Blair could owe others who he supposedly scammed in similar fashion up to $2 million.
Drew Willard, a journalist for Vice's music site Noisey, included an investigative report that he called the Fulton County Medical Examiner's office in Atlanta and asked if a man named Timothy Blair or any of his known aliases had come though their office around the time of the rapper's death. Mark Guilbeau returned with no results.
"We didn't have anybody by that name that would be close to that age or description," he told Willard.
It's this lack of definitive evidence of Blair's death that caused Jubera to issue a warrant for the rapper's arrest.
Willard reported Pilgrim had joined an international "sisterhood" of women who met Tim Dog on the Internet. The support group members routinely keep in touch by sharing stories and information.
"It's not really about the money," Pilgrim told Willard. "This affected me long term - financially, emotionally, physically, everything."
