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50 Cent sues former TV consultant
By Andy Malt | Published on Thursday 24 September 2015
50 Cent is suing a TV consultant who, the rapper claims, acted as his agent and collected fees without permission on an aborted reality TV project with E!.
The legal action, filed in Connecticut’s federal bankruptcy court, claims that Andrew Jameson and the rapper had initially worked together, but that Jameson continued to negotiate and agree terms on the TV show after their relationship had ended.
According to New York Daily News, the lawsuit says that the rapper was “appalled” to learn that Jameson had suggested that a “young white girl” should be included in the show to make it more sellable. It also accuses him of sending “an inappropriate and highly offensive text to an officer of G-Unit in connection with that suggestion”.
50 Cent later told E! Entertainment that he did not want to go ahead with the project, but was told that Jameson had already agreed terms and taken a fee. The rapper refused to go ahead anyway, which, says the lawsuit, “severely damaged” his relationship with E! and its parent company NBC Universal.
The rapper wants $810,000 in damages, but Jameson’s lawyer Eric George countered to NYDN: “In fact, Andrew is the one owed money – several months of unpaid salary plus a percentage of future revenues – and he’s filed arbitration to collect it”.
As previously reported, 50 Cent recently filed for bankruptcy protection after being ordered to pay $5 million in damages to Lastonia Leviston for the 2010 leak of a sextape featuring her and a former boyfriend. With punitive damages still to be ruled upon at that point, Leviston’s lawyers successfully lobbied to stop the rapper’s bankruptcy claim from halting or delaying proceedings. He was then ordered to pay a further $2 million.
