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50 Cent settles part of lawsuit over penis enlargement implying photo

By | Published on Wednesday 22 February 2023

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50 Cent has settled part of his litigation over a photo of the rapper at a medical centre that may or may not have implied he’d had penis enlargement surgery. He hadn’t, by the way. He’d just popped in for a spa treatment.

The main defendant in this lawsuit is Angela Kogan, who was sued by 50 Cent – real name Curtis Jackson – last September. He had his photo taken with her in 2020 and that photo subsequently popped up on the social media profiles of Kogan’s company, which trades as Perfection Plastic Surgery and MedSpa.

In his lawsuit, Jackson insisted that he thought he was just having his photo taken with a fan back in 2020, and therefore he was somewhat pissed off when it was posted to the MedSpa socials, because it implied he had used and endorsed her company’s services.

Worse still, the photo was also used in an article on gossip site The Shade Room in which Kogan discussed the rise in plastic surgery for men, including penile enhancements.

The use of the photo alongside that interview – which Jackson argued was basically advertorial – again implied that he had used and endorsed Kogan’s company, and also possibly suggested he’d had surgery on his penis.

In her response, Kogan argued that the “it was just a photo with a fan” claim wasn’t credible, because the picture was taken in her office after Jackson and his girlfriend had received free spa treatments. And it was clear at the time, she claimed, that the photo was some kind of quid pro quo for the free treatments, meaning it was a given she might post it to social media.

She also insisted that her posting of the photo to her company’s socials was purely for entertainment purposes, and that she wasn’t making any claims of endorsement, or that Jackson had received any treatments from her company, penis-based or otherwise.

The legal dispute between Jackson and Kogan continues to go through the motions, but the rapper also sued The Shade Room over its use of the photo, and the implication he had used MedSpa’s services, maybe even for a penis enlargement. Which, Jackson reckoned, constituted defamation.

I’m not sure it really did, but we’ll not now get any judicial insight on that. “Plaintiff Curtis J Jackson III pka 50 Cent hereby gives notice that he has reached an agreement to settle with defendant The Shade Room LLC”, a document logged with the court yesterday reads.

“Jackson and TSR are in the process of executing their respective obligations pursuant to the agreement and will file a notice of voluntary dismissal with prejudice of defendant The Shade Room LLC shortly thereafter”, it adds.

But, just to be clear, the filing concludes: “This notice does not apply to defendants Angela Kogan and Perfection Plastic Surgery Inc [trading as] Perfection Plastic Surgery and MedSpa”.



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