Rapper known as 50 Cent files for bankruptcy after court loss
By Associated Press in Hartford, Connecticut | China Daily | Updated: 2015-07-15 08:00
The rapper 50 Cent, known for the album Get Rich or Die Tryin', has filed for bankruptcy.
The artist, whose real name is Curtis Jackson III, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in US Bankruptcy Court in Hartford, Connecticut, on Monday, days after a jury ordered him to pay $5 million in an invasion-of-privacy lawsuit. He owns a 4,645-square-meter mansion in nearby Farmington.
The filing comes after a New York jury on Friday ordered Jackson to pay $5 million to a woman who said he acquired a video she made with her boyfriend and then added himself as a crude commentator and posted it online without her permission.
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