This sum will be added to the $5 million in damages that Fiddy has already been ordered to pay to Lastonia Leviston, whose sex tape he leaked online seven years ago.
Things don’t look like improving for 50 Cent any time soon. Just a couple of weeks after he filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, he’s now been ordered to pay an extra $2 million in punitive damages to the woman whose sex tape he posted online.
The Associated Press reports that the rapper, real name Curtis Jackson III, will now have to pay a total of $7 million to Lastonia Leviston, the Floridian woman and ex-girlfriend of his rival Rick Ross, after he was found guilty of infringing her right to privacy by posting a sex tape of her without her consent in 2008.
James Renard, Jackson’s attorney, told People magazine in a statement on Friday (July 24th): “Although we appreciate the jury's service, we are disappointed in the result.”
50 Cent now has to pay a total of $7 million to Lastonia Leviston
He added: “Our client intends to file post-verdict, pre-judgment motions which we believe should reduce the size of the award. Ultimately, the fate of any obligation to pay a final judgment will be determined by the bankruptcy court.”
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The sex tape was posted seven years ago when Fiddy was embroiled in a beef with Rick Ross. After having obtained it through a friend, he edited the 13 minute video with some overdubbed narration of his own in which he can be heard taunting his rival rapper, with whom Leviston has a child.
This was found to have infringed her right to privacy in the original judgment earlier in July. The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday July 13th that Jackson had filed for bankruptcy, after being ordered to pay $5 million to Leviston three days previously.
In May, Forbes had listed the rapper as having a net worth of $155 million, making him the fourth-richest hip-hop artist in the world. However, the bankruptcy filing reportedly cited Jackson having between $10-$50 million in both assets and liabilities. Some reports had suggested that the filing was a tactic to avoid having to pay Leviston, or at least reduce the sum.
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