“Get rich or go into debt tryin’.”
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Rapper Curtis James Jackson III, also known as 50 Cent, filed for bankruptcy on Monday just days after he was ordered to pay $5 million to a woman whose sex tape he released online with himself added in as a character named "Pimpin' Curly."
A jury on Friday ordered the multiplatinum-selling "Get Rich or Die Tryin'" rapper to pay the damages to the lawsuit's plaintiff, Lastonia Leviston. But in a move that will likely effect collection efforts, the 40-year-old rapper filed for Chapter 11 protection in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Hartford, Connecticut, on Monday, the Wall Street Journal reported.
In 2009, 50 Cent posted an altered version of Leviston's sex tape online, which was given to him by the women's ex-boyfriend, who was in it. The 13-minute video was altered to include 50 Cent, who is seen wearing a wig and calling himself "Pimpin' Curly." His character also refers to Leviston as a porn star and makes crude comments about rival Rick Ross.
Leviston has a child with Rick Ross — who was in a public feud with 50 Cent at the time the video was posted online — but he is not in the tape. In his defense, 50 Cent said the man who gave him the video said it was OK to post online, although Leviston said she did not give her approval.
"This was something done to me. I didn't have a choice. I would never, ever do this to myself," she testified, according to the Associated Press.
In May, 50 Cent's boxing promotion company, SMS Productions LLC, also filed for bankruptcy in New York in a move seen as protecting against possible damage payments related to Leviston's invasion-of-privacy lawsuit, the New York Daily News reported.
It was not immediately clear how the bankruptcy fillings will effect the payouts to Leviston.
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