Posted Dec 24th 2008 1:08AM by TMZ Staff
If 50 Cent makes you a promise post-coitus, don't hold him to it.
TMZ has learned 50 Cent is firing back at baby mama Shaniqua Tompkins, who filed a $50 million breach of contract suit. In a response to her suit we've obtained, 50 says anything he said to her is "nothing more than pillow talk and romantic declarations of love."
50 even lays out in the simplest terms -- "If I ever intended to make that kind of commitment to [Tompkins], I would have married her."
Baby Mama's people -- your serve.
Filed under: Celebrity Justice, 50 Cent
Posted Dec 5th 2008 9:50AM by TMZ Staff
Add one more person to the unemployment line -- the guy who locked the keys to 50 Cent's Rolls in the car.
With their livelihood -- and probably lives! -- on the line, members of Fiddy's crack security team hastily used coat hangers to jimmy his ride's door open in London this morning.
Go shawty, it's yo last day.
Filed under: Paparazzi Photo, Music, 50 Cent
Posted Nov 20th 2008 9:30AM by TMZ Staff
Taco Bell knows about as much about rap music as it does about Mexican food.
In legal papers filed in Federal court, the Bell's lawyers claim 50's tough-talking $4 million trademark infringement lawsuit from this summer was just a publicity stunt -- but it's the personal shots they fire at Fiddy that really spice things up.
Bell's peeps tried to attack 50's credibility, saying his work "falls in the subgenre of hip hop music known as 'gangsta rap,' a style associated with urban street gangs and characterized by violent, tough-talking braggadocio." They also claim that Fiddy only filed the lawsuit to "burnish his gangsta rapper persona" -- 'cause nothing builds street cred like a lawsuit.
50 sued over Taco Bell's lame promo where they offered to give $10K to charity if the rapper changed his name to 79, 89, or 99 Cent.
UPDATE 11:04 ET: Looks like Fitty's still in it to win it: His lawyer tells us "Taco Bell needs to be stopped" and that "Mr. Cent intends to vigorously pursue this case."
Filed under: Celebrity Justice, 50 Cent
Posted Oct 22nd 2008 3:51PM by TMZ Staff
Part of the 50 Cent baby mama drama actually got resolved today -- the parties agreed on a custody arrangement.
Fitty wanted two weekends a month with Marquise, but the judge awarded him one. He did however get one month in the summer and half of the time Marquise is out of school for winter and spring breaks.
All parties are simpatico ... on this. There's still a huge tangle of legal thorns in NYC, Long Island, and Connecticut.
Filed under: Celebrity Justice, 50 Cent
Posted Sep 4th 2008 11:20AM by TMZ Staff
50 Cent is going through a whole lotta baby mama drama -- for not a whole lotta time with his kid.
Sources close to the case tell us Fitty wants visitation with 11-year-old Marquise every other weekend, and that's it.
So three separate cases and a whole slew of legal bills -- for not a lot of face time with the kid.
The pair are due in court next Monday.
UPDATE: We're told by Mr. Cent's lawyer Brett Kimmel that he's also looking for a month during the summer and access during school recesses. His request, says Brett, "maximizes the time the child can spend with his father while remaining sensitive to the child's own schedule."
Filed under: 50 Cent
Posted Aug 4th 2008 6:33PM by TMZ Staff
This might be the most shocking development yet in the 50 Cent baby mama drama: An exchange between the two that didn't end -- or begin -- with fireworks!
We're told that Fiddy picked up his son Marquise yesterday from baby mama Shaniqua Tompkins -- and the drop-off went off "without a hitch"! The rapper and his boy haven't seen each other since before the house where Tompkins and Marquise were living burned down at the end of May.
Fiddy, we're told, will be spending time with Marquise at his home in Connecticut until the middle of next week, when he has to leave the country to film a movie. Explosions will likely resume in September, when the pair have to be back in family court to settle a restraining order.
Filed under: 50 Cent
Posted Jul 17th 2008 1:12PM by TMZ Staff
50 Cent got what he wanted in the latest chapter of his baby mama drama -- kind of.
A Long Island judge granted him an unrestricted visit from August 3-12 with Marquise, his son with Shaniqua Tompkins. We're told that both parties had to submit to drug tests at the courthouse before the judge would talk visits, and 50 was clean. Shaniqua tested positive ... for cough meds.
Our spies tell us that Shaniqua claimed in court that 50 is keeping her from using her Land Rover SUV by keeping guards at the site of the house that was engulfed by flames last month. He denies that's the case. Baby mama drama continues on September 15.
Filed under: Celebrity Justice, 50 Cent
Posted Jul 17th 2008 8:35AM by TMZ Staff
50 Cent is in court today to fight for more time with his son Marquise -- but Marquise's mama says that he might want to start by actually talking to him on the phone.
Shaniqua Tompkins told us going into court that her son talked to Papa Cent on his birthday July 6, but Fitty hasn't talked to him since! Meanwhile, baby mama apparently needs new kicks -- her heel broke on the way in!
We just heard that moments ago, both Fiddy and Shaniqua had to take a drug test, and the results will be back any minute. (Fiddy was clean, but Shaniqua tested pos ... for cough medicine.)
Filed under: 50 Cent
Posted Jul 2nd 2008 5:50PM by TMZ Staff
50 Cent's baby mama Shaniqua Tompkins may be crazazy, but don't ask fellow G-Unit rappers Lloyd Banks or Yayo to talk about her.
Filed under: 50 Cent
Posted Jun 20th 2008 10:15AM by TMZ Staff
50 Cent hasn't seen his son Marquise since a fire destroyed his Long Island house -- and his baby mama wants to keep it that way.
TMZ has learned that Shaniqua Tompkins is headed to court this morning, asking for a temporary restraining order against Fiddy. Shaniqua will allege that threats have been made against her -- and they're coming from 50's peeps.
Story developing ...
Filed under: Celebrity Justice, 50 Cent
Posted Jun 10th 2008 2:45PM by TMZ Staff
A judge has just told 50 Cent he can't sell, unload or otherwise get rid of what used to be his $2 million crib in Long Island -- not until they figure out what caused the fire.
The rapper has also been ordered to put any insurance money he gets from the toasted house in a trust account until his fight with ex-GF Shaniqua Tompkins is resolved.
When we caught up with her after the hearing, baby mama Tompkins maintained that the house was still hers, but didn't go so far as to blame Fiddy for the fire.
Filed under: Celebrity Justice, 50 Cent
Posted Jun 6th 2008 12:49PM by TMZ Staff
So you're at a gas station and you gotta GO -- but unlike Britney Spears, you ain't going near the grody bathrooms. What do you do? If you're 50 Cent, you piss all over the sidewalk.
50 and his boys were cruising in his sick Lambo in Queens the other day when he needed to sneak a leak.
Hope he washed his hands.
Filed under: Music, Wacky & Weird, 50 Cent
Posted May 30th 2008 4:10PM by TMZ Staff
50 Cent's lawyer Brett Kimmel released the following statement to TMZ:
"Any suggestion that Mr. Jackson had anything whatsoever to do with the fire at his home is outrageous and offensive."
Shaniqua Tompkins, Fiddy's baby mama, went NUTS this morning, suggesting the rapper had something to do with the blaze.
Filed under: Celebrity Justice, 50 Cent, Fights
Posted May 30th 2008 1:25PM by TMZ Staff
The lawyer for 50 Cent's baby mama, Shaniqua Tompkins, tells TMZ that she heard "someone" come into the house this morning at 4 AM, shortly before the fire broke out around an hour later.
Paul Catsandonis, Shaniqua's lawyer, tells us that his client is "traumatized" by the fire and that the kids are similarly in total shock. Six people, including Tompkins and their 10-year-old son Marquise, were in the house. They all were transported to the hospital and treated for smoke inhalation.
Story developing ...
Filed under: Celebrity Justice, 50 Cent
Posted May 30th 2008 12:30PM by TMZ Staff
50 Cent is fired up! His rep issued the following statement to us about the fire at his Long Island home earlier this morning:
"Informed this morning while filming a new motion picture on location in Louisiana, Curtis Jackson expressed deep concern over this fire at his property. He is extremely thankful that everyone including his son, Marquise, escaped the burning house safely. He is confident that authorities will be conducting a thorough investigation of the incident and is eager to review their findings."
Filed under: Celebrity Justice, 50 Cent
