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07-24-2015, 09:02 PM
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City jury has found that rapper 50 Cent must pay an additional $2 million in punitive damages to a woman featured in a sex tape posted to the Internet.
The jurors' decision Friday came two weeks after they ordered the multiplatinum-selling artist to pay $5 million to Lastonia Leviston. (http://www.hip-hopvibe.com/2015/07/10/50-cent-ordered-to-pay-5-million-to-lavonia-leviston-mother-of-rick-ross-child-over-2009-sextape/)
Leviston's invasion-of-privacy lawsuit argues that 50 Cent, born Curtis Jackson III, posted online a crudely narrated 13-minute sex-tape she made with a boyfriend in 2008. In the video, he taunts rival rapper Rick Ross, who isn't featured in the video but has a child with Leviston.
After the jury's verdict, Jackson filed for bankruptcy protection in Connecticut. (http://start.westnet.ca/newstempch.php?article=entry/50-cent-files-bankruptcy_55a3c578e4b0ecec71bc6918)
A lawyer for Leviston had urged jurors to award her $15 million. Jackson's attorney had asked them to order he pay $700,000.
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The jurors' decision Friday came two weeks after they ordered the multiplatinum-selling artist to pay $5 million to Lastonia Leviston. (http://www.hip-hopvibe.com/2015/07/10/50-cent-ordered-to-pay-5-million-to-lavonia-leviston-mother-of-rick-ross-child-over-2009-sextape/)
Leviston's invasion-of-privacy lawsuit argues that 50 Cent, born Curtis Jackson III, posted online a crudely narrated 13-minute sex-tape she made with a boyfriend in 2008. In the video, he taunts rival rapper Rick Ross, who isn't featured in the video but has a child with Leviston.
After the jury's verdict, Jackson filed for bankruptcy protection in Connecticut. (http://start.westnet.ca/newstempch.php?article=entry/50-cent-files-bankruptcy_55a3c578e4b0ecec71bc6918)
A lawyer for Leviston had urged jurors to award her $15 million. Jackson's attorney had asked them to order he pay $700,000.
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