A New York jury has ordered the rapper-actor to pay $US5 million ($NZ7.44 million) to a woman who said he acquired a video she made with her boyfriend, added himself as a crude commentator and posted it online without her permission.
Jurors have made the award and are set to deliberate next week on possible further punitive damages in Lastonia Leviston's invasion-of-privacy lawsuit against the Get Rich or Die Tryin' rapper.
One of his lawyers, William Brewer III, says they're disappointed in the verdict. Leviston's lawyer, Philip Freidin, declined to comment.
According to the New York Post Freidin said 50 Cent's commentary in the video picked apart Leviston's body and referenced her stretch marks.
The rapper said he didn't actually post the video but that Leviston's then-boyfriend said she wouldn't mind. Leviston said she was horrified and humiliated when it appeared in 2009.
In 2003 Leviston had a child with rapper Rick Ross, who has a long-standing rivalry with 50 Cent.
50cents is just a serial trouble maker. Let him pay dis time. Hmmm! "Uwaifo don talk e own o".
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