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DMX back in jail
By Chris Cooke | Published on Wednesday 15 July 2015
DMX is back in jail, this time for failure to pay child support.
The rapper was arrested last month just before he was due to perform at the Radio City Music Hall in New York. And while you might think that gig could have helped pay the outstanding child support, $400,000 was owing at the time, so it probably wouldn’t have made that much difference.
After his arrest, New York officials said that DMX had been taken in over alleged bail jumping and robbery in addition to the child support issue, though no charges were ever pressed on the robbery claim. Nevertheless, a family court passed down the six month sentence on the child support point alone, with the rapper reportedly sent to the Erie County Holding Center yesterday.
Having topped the US charts with each of his first five albums between 1998 and 2003, in more recent years DMX has been in the news more often for his personal life and various run ins with the law.
