December 23, 2015
Rapper 50 Cent hit rival Rick Ross with a trademark suit on Wednesday in Connecticut bankruptcy court, saying Ross unlawfully used 50 Cent's hit song "In Da Club" in an online mixtape used to promote Ross' new album "Black Market."
November 30, 2015
Sleek Audio said Monday that it is seeking to depose rapper 50 Cent and may file a lawsuit to block the entertainer from potentially wiping out through his bankruptcy an $18 million legal claim the company obtained over a soured deal to create 50 Cent branded headphones.
November 19, 2015
A woman who has a legal judgment against 50 Cent said in court papers on Thursday that Brewer Attorneys & Counselors, a law firm assisting the rapper with his bankruptcy, has run up an exorbitant hotel and travel bill, and demanded that the fees be lowered.
October 06, 2015
Rapper 50 Cent accused of malpractice Garvey Schubert Barer and the attorneys who represented him in licensing negotiations and arbitration disputes with a headphones maker in which the now-bankrupt entertainer had invested, saying in a complaint on Tuesday that the firm and its attorneys owe him $75 million.
September 22, 2015
Rapper 50 Cent on Tuesday sued a former business associate who is accused of working as an unlicensed talent agent for the now-bankrupt entertainer, an arrangement 50 Cent says ultimately damaged his relationship with NBC when he backed out of a reality show he didn't agree to participate in.
August 26, 2015
Rapper 50 Cent's attorneys on Tuesday urged a Connecticut bankruptcy judge to block the woman who successfully sued him for posting a sex tape online from obtaining additional information about his finances, painting her as a vengeful litigant out to further punish the entertainer.
August 21, 2015
The U.S. trustee overseeing 50 Cent's bankruptcy objected Thursday to the rapper's request to retain Zeisler & Zeisler PC and Neligan Foley LLP in Chapter 11 proceedings and Robins Kaplan LLP in a separate sex tape lawsuit, saying the firms either haven't provided enough information or are conflicted because they represent his bankrupt boxing company.
July 17, 2015
A Connecticut bankruptcy judge on Friday allowed a woman who won a $5 million privacy verdict against rapper 50 Cent over the unlawful posting of a sexually explicit tape to proceed with the punitive damages phase of her case despite the rapper's bid for litigation protection in Chapter 11.