O'Neal and his business partner denied involvement in the 2008 attack on a man who said he had a sex tape of the former Laker. The victim told authorities that he believed O'Neal was behind the attack.The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department in 2009 investigated allegations that Shaquille O'Neal was connected to a beating, robbery and kidnapping by gang members of a man claiming to have a sex tape of the basketball star, according to records reviewed by The Times.