50 Cent faces $21m lawsuit
12/11/2003 07:57  - (SA)  

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New York - Rapper 50 Cent and his record label have been sued for $21 million by a New York Post photographer who claims the rapper's bodyguards attacked him.

James Alcorn alleges in a lawsuit filed in state Supreme Court that he was "assaulted and battered" by seven bodyguards on August 27 while photographing 50 Cent, who was shopping in the diamond district.

With the 27-year-old rapper looking on, the unidentified men allegedly slammed Alcorn down on the sidewalk, then loomed over him as he snapped a photo of them. Alcorn claims he suffered neck and jaw injuries.

The incident was being investigated as a possible misdemeanour assault, a police spokesperson, Sgt Kevin Hayes, said on Tuesday. A call to 50 Cent's spokesperson at Interscope Records wasn't immediately returned.

The lawsuit, filed on Monday, accuses 50 Cent and Interscope of "not exercising reasonable care and diligence in the employment" of the bodyguards.

- AP

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