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50 Cent sex tape legal battle to continue despite bankruptcy

By | Published on Monday 20 July 2015

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A federal judge in the US has ruled that litigation relating to 50 Cent leaking a sex tape onto the internet can proceed, despite the rapper filing for bankruptcy protection.

As previously reported, Fiddy filed for bankruptcy protection last week, just days after he was found liable for breaching the privacy of Lastonia Leviston by leaking a sex tape in which she appears. The court heard that Leviston has a child with the rapper Rick Ross, with whom 50 Cent has a long-running feud.

Fiddy, real name Curtis Jackson, was ordered to pay Leviston $5 million in damages, while the jury prepared to review the rapper’s financial affairs in order to consider whether additional punitive damages should be added to the court order.

In theory Jackson applying for bankruptcy protection should have halted all of that, and it’s been alleged that that was the motivation behind the bankruptcy move. But lawyers for Leviston requested that this particular legal dispute be allowed to proceed unhindered. And it seems that the courts have granted that request and the Leviston v Jackson case is now set to resume in court later today.

All of which might mean poor old Fiddy – valued at a mere $155 million by Forbes earlier this year – may need some extra cash. And look, you can help! Tickets are going on sale this week for 50 Cent shows in Glasgow, Manchester and Newcastle later this year, on 4, 6 and 7 Nov respectively. Come on, do your bit for Fiddy Aid. Just one sell-out tour will enable Jackson to leak three more sex tapes and in doing so assure the long term future of the much maligned artform that is hip hop beefery.



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