{"id":11975,"date":"2015-07-22T11:09:01","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T15:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ohsodj.com\/?p=11975"},"modified":"2015-07-22T11:09:01","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T15:09:01","slug":"50-cent-appears-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/?p=11975","title":{"rendered":"50 Cent Appears in Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ohsodj.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/05\/50_tidal.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/ohsodj.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/05\/50_tidal.png?resize=245%2C222\" alt=\"50_tidal\" width=\"245\" height=\"222\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10880\" \/><\/a>Still trying to paint the image of financial struggle, 50 Cent finally appeared in court yesterday (July 21) in the 2009 sex tape scandal involving the ex-girlfriend of Rick Ross, Lastonia Leviston. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After a ruling that 50 pay Leviston $5 million, he made a claim to a Manhattan Supreme Court judge that he was not as rich as he seems.<\/p>\n<p>According to the New York Post, 50 Cent now claims that he is worth $4.4 million, a striking contrast to the $150 million reported by Forbes earlier this year. In reference to his flashy cars and jewelry, the G-Unit general maintains that the vehicles were rented and the jewels were borrowed from his jeweler. He also claimed that his has just three gold chains \u2013 which he takes to the jeweler to redesign \u2013 and that he dons Casio G-Shock watches, as opposed to Rolex timepieces.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s like music videos, they say action and you see all these fancy cars but everything goes back to the dealership,\u201d the Post reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou gotta smile when you\u2019re in a public situation. If you\u2019re crying they\u2019re just having more fun with you,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Since his bankruptcy filing last week, 50 Cent\u2019s lawyer told the judge that 50&#8217;s bank account is nearing zero because of debts owed. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Still trying to paint the image of financial struggle, 50 Cent finally appeared in court yesterday (July 21) in the 2009 sex tape scandal involving the ex-girlfriend of Rick Ross, Lastonia Leviston.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[31,807],"class_list":["post-11975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-50-cent","tag-matrix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7qLKy-379","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/50_tidal.png?fit=245%2C222&ssl=1","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}