50 Cent in child-support fight
2007-06-23 21:42
Central Islip - Rapper 50 Cent already doles out $25 000 a month in child support and household expenses to the mother of his 10-year-old son, Marquise Jackson.
But the boy's mother, Shaniqua Tompkins, says that is not enough.
The rapper, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, is "worth tens and tens of millions of dollars," said her attorney, Raoul Felder.
The two are wrangling over the issue in a Long Island family court, east of New York City, where the rapper arrived on Friday in an armoured sport utility vehicle with a satellite dish.
50 Cent famously vowed to Get Rich or Die Tryin' on a 2003 album, and he no longer needs to worry about the latter alternative.
Sold more than 11 million albums
With his G-Unit record label, clothing line, ring tones and other enterprises, 50 Cent reeled in an estimated $33m in the last year, according to Forbes.
He has sold more than 11 million albums and has a new album, Curtis, due out in September.
The rapper's lawyer, Brett Kimmel, called Tompkins "insatiable."
"Her demands keep escalating," he told the Daily News on Friday.
Closed-door hearings on the child-support case were scheduled to continue next week.
- AP