50 Cent’s publishing firm G-Unit Books has sued Shaniqua Tompkins, his ex-girlfriend, after she promoted a tell-all content material on-line.
Paperwork AllHipHop was in a position to gather declare that her motion is in violation of a 2007 contract she signed with G-Unit Books. Within the transaction, 50 Cent (Curtis James Jackson III) alleges Tompkins bought the unique rights to her life narrative to G-Unit Books for $80,000 plus future income.
The allegation relies on a collection of social media video interviews. In these “tell-all” movies , she describes her relationship with 50 Cent and their son, Marquise. She claims 50 abused her throughout her being pregnant and was aggressive all through their relationship.
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“Capitalizing on her current notoriety from a ‘viral’ submit commenting on testimony within the high-profile ‘Diddy’ trial, Tompkins has repeatedly and intentionally exploited the very rights she conveyed to G-Unit Books,” the criticism reads.
Based on Billboard, after Tompkins went viral with the Instagram submit, she allegedly continued to explicitly violate the life rights contract by publishing a collection of “tell-all” movies on the social media platform.
These movies, that are collectively properly over two hours, largely middle on Tompkins’ relationship with 50 Cent, in response to the lawsuit. Different subjects coated embrace the rapper’s long-running battle with Combs and his infamous taking pictures in 2000.
“Tompkins’ actions are an try to take advantage of her quarter-hour of fame for business acquire, regardless that she is contractually prohibited from doing so,” legal professionals for G-Unit Books wrote.
This conduct has supposedly harmed G-Unit Books by “diminishing the worth of the unique rights it acquired and undermining its potential to develop and market future works based mostly on these rights,” the lawsuit said.
Along with a court docket order compelling Tompkins to stop posting these movies and take down the content material she has already printed, 50 Cent’s publishing enterprise is requesting at the very least $1 million in damages. He additionally desires her to pay for his authorized charges all through your entire course of.
Based on 50 Cent’s legal professional, Reena Jain, “Tompkins’ habits was intentional—she explicitly referenced the very settlement she breached whereas actively breaching it, stating it was one thing that was ‘going to must be labored out legally,’” as reported by AllHipHop.
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“Jackson bought these rights to protect them to be used in future biographical or autobiographical tasks, but additionally partly as a result of he was involved that Tompkins would try to monetize their historical past and his title. His issues had been finally confirmed appropriate,” Jain added.
50 Cent and Shaniqua Tompkins dated on and off in the course of the Nineteen Nineties. Their romance ended lengthy earlier than he rose to worldwide stardom along with his debut studio album, Get Wealthy or Die Tryin’. In October 1996, they welcomed Marquise, their solely son. Following their separation, the 2 had been concerned in a prolonged custody dispute that, in response to Folks, didn’t formally finish till October 2008.
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