Fire Destroys 50 Cent's Mansion

by Heiky | May 30, 2008 at 08:27 am
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Rapper 50 Cent's mansion was destroyed by a "suspicous" fire early this morning. His former girlfriend, Shaniqua Tompkins, had filed a lawsuit against 50 Cent over the $2.4 million Long Island home earlier this year.

The blaze occurred just days after a heated confrontation inside the woman's attorney's office over the home. 50 Cent does not live in the home and apparently wasn't there at the time.

Six people inside the Dix Hills home were taken to a hospital suffering smoke inhalation, including the former girlfriend and a boy fathered by the rapper. All six were treated and released. A firefighter also suffered a minor eye injury, officials said.

Investigators from the Suffolk County arson squad were called to the scene after Dix Hills Fire Chief Larry Feld deemed the blaze suspicious. The fire was reported about 5 a.m. and extinguished about 45 minutes later, Feld said.

The rapper's ex-girlfriend, Shaniqua Tompkins, and two of her children, including 50 Cent's son, were among the injured. The other three adults in the home were not immediately identified.

Earlier this year, Tompkins filed suit against 50 Cent, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, claiming he had promised her the $2.4 million house more than a decade ago but that since their breakup he now wants to evict her and their 10-year-old son.

Tompkins' lawyer, Paul Catsandonis, said the dispute over the house had become "extremely, extremely contentious" in recent days. Although he declined to be specific, he said there was an "extremely dangerous incident" on Monday in his Manhattan office while taking a deposition for the lawsuit.

The dispute was "involving the parties in question," he said.

He said the case was back on the calendar in state Supreme Court in Manhattan on June 10.

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Jarrett Martineau
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at 08:43 on May 30th, 2008

"Suspicious" is right. Perhaps, just a little too much of a coincidence.

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Ling Ling Ang

This photo was taken at the 50 Cent and G-Unit concert end of April at the Melbourne Rod Laver Arena 2008 in Australia.

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miclush826

Curtis Jackson (50 Cent) and the Locations staff Rob Coleman at the Righteous Kill Movie set Bridgeport, Ct. 2007.

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k11 k11

I painted this when 50 Cent was in San Francisco and never played, in 2003, hela folks were lined up and I bet he was just sitting in his bus watching us. LOL. You can view the entire painting at www.kendallkaram.com slapped with the original flyer.

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L Love

She needed to burn it down. He want to put her and their child out the house. What real man would put their child out on the streets when they got all this money to take good care of them. She should burn down the rest of them.

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