The verdict came down just hours before Jackson’s 40th birthday celebration at Drai’s Nighclub in Las Vegas.Īs it was announced in the Manhattan courtroom Leviston, 36, sat in the front row squeezing the hand of a friend and then wiped away tears as the jury foreman, a grey-haired art professor, read the verdict sheet. The Jamaica, Queens native and one-time crack cocaine dealer, who has his own vodka line and video game series, is reportedly worth a half billion dollars. The disclosure would provide a rare peak into the finances of one of the world’s most successful rappers. “Maurice broke her heart and 50 Cent ruined her life,” Leviston’s lawyer, Philip Freidin said in his closing statement Thursday.įreidin asked the judge to demand that Jackson come to court next week and turn over his state and federal tax returns for the past five years. Murray reportedly sold the video to Jackson after his breakup with Leviston. Leviston’s lawyers said that the publication of the 2009 film, which shows her in graphic sex positions with her then boyfriend Maurice Murray, nearly drove the mother of two to suicide. Jackson needles Ross in the x-rated video with a voiceover saying, “Is that your baby Ricky?” In a Hot 97 interview with Jackson that was played during the Manhattan Supreme Court trial the Grammy-Award winner admitted that his feud with Ross drove traffic to his website. The posting violated Leviston’s privacy rights, the jurors found. They also decided that Jackson had profited off the posting that was linked to his website. The jurors found that the woman, Ross’ baby mama Lastonia Leviston, suffered “severe emotional distress” when the rapper, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, narrated the video calling her a “slut” and “motherf–king porn star.” Now Jackson may have to appear in court next week with his net worth statement in hand so the jury can decide on additional, punitive damages. The whopping verdict came down after the four-woman, two-man jury deliberated for only an hour and ten minutes toward the end of a five-week trial Friday. The “Poor Lil’ Rich” performer 50 Cent has to pay a Florida woman over $5 million for posting her private sex video online as part of his rap beef with rival Rick Ross.
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