Final yr, 50 Cent stated he’s spent over $20 million in legal fees since 2003. So that you’ll forgive him for being a bit petty anytime he will get a win. Should you spent over one million bucks a yr combating court docket circumstances for twenty years, you’d most likely need a bit payback too.
In one in every of his most up-to-date circumstances, 50 sued and defeated a former worker of his Sire Spirits firm after the person embezzled over $2 million from it. Whereas working for 50, Mitchell Inexperienced had reportedly bought $150 bottles of Le Chemin du Roi champagne to wholesalers at inflated costs, then pocketed the additional underneath the guise of “company charges.”
After all, 50 has by no means been one to take any slight mendacity down, so he sued Inexperienced (after firing him, after all) in 2021, successful $6,194,293 together with curiosity, legal professional’s charges, and arbitrator compensation in an October judgment. Inexperienced tried to have the award vacated final June, failed, and the court docket added $89,305.50 in legal professional’s charges final November.
Earlier this month, 50 was granted permission to grab Inexperienced’s properties as compensation, together with his residence, automobiles, and numerous financial institution accounts. On Instagram, he gleefully inspired Inexperienced to vacate whereas detailing some devious plans for the place. “I believe i’m gonna put Epoxy flooring on this place,” he wrote. “I’m gonna hold it and his household photos round, you already know as a theme for the place. LOL.” Once more: Do not mess with 50.
And whereas he’s acquired this victory underneath his belt, he’s nonetheless acquired a couple of extra authorized points underneath dispute. He not too long ago settled a lawsuit with The Shade Room over penis enlargement claims — though he’s persevering with his go well with in opposition to the surgeon who originated them — and he’s at the moment mixing it up with rival liquor brand Remy Martin. A minimum of he’s acquired cash coming in to assist him combat these circumstances.
