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Mother of 50 Cent's Child: $25G Isn't Enough
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Associated Press
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. - The $25,000 a month in child support and household
expenses that rapper 50 Cent pays to the mother of his 10-year-old son is
not enough, says the boy's mother, Shaniqua Tompkins.
The rapper is "worth tens and tens of millions of dollars," said her
attorney, Raoul Felder.
The parents of young Marquise Jackson are wrangling over the issue in family
court in this Long Island community, where 50 Cent arrived Friday in an
armored SUV equipped with a satellite dish.
50 Cent no longer needs to worry about the choice he famously expressed on a
2004 album - "Get Rich or Die Tryin'."
With his G-Unit record label, clothing line, ring tones and other
enterprises, 50 Cent - whose real name is Curtis Jackson - reeled in an
estimated $33 million in the past year, according to Forbes. He has sold
more than 11 million albums and has a new album, "Curtis," due out in
September.
His lawyer, Brett Kimmel, called Tompkins "insatiable."
"Her demands keep escalating," he told the Daily News.
Closed-door hearings on the child-support case are scheduled to continue
this coming week
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Associated Press
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. - The $25,000 a month in child support and household
expenses that rapper 50 Cent pays to the mother of his 10-year-old son is
not enough, says the boy's mother, Shaniqua Tompkins.
The rapper is "worth tens and tens of millions of dollars," said her
attorney, Raoul Felder.
The parents of young Marquise Jackson are wrangling over the issue in family
court in this Long Island community, where 50 Cent arrived Friday in an
armored SUV equipped with a satellite dish.
50 Cent no longer needs to worry about the choice he famously expressed on a
2004 album - "Get Rich or Die Tryin'."
With his G-Unit record label, clothing line, ring tones and other
enterprises, 50 Cent - whose real name is Curtis Jackson - reeled in an
estimated $33 million in the past year, according to Forbes. He has sold
more than 11 million albums and has a new album, "Curtis," due out in
September.
His lawyer, Brett Kimmel, called Tompkins "insatiable."
"Her demands keep escalating," he told the Daily News.
Closed-door hearings on the child-support case are scheduled to continue
this coming week