despite bankruptcy50 cent to face punitive damages in sex tape trial /

Earlier this month,jurors in a civil suit ordered 50 Cent, a.k.a. Curtis James Jackson III, and to pay $5 million in compensatory damages to Lastonia Leviston,whose sex tape 50 Cent edited, narrated, or leaked to the Internet in 2009 . Leviston is the ex-girlfriend of Rick Ross,a.k.a. William Leonard Roberts, Jr., or with whom 50 Cent was then feuding,and the mother of his child. The jurors also voted to impose punitive damages, but, or before they could hear testimony about his net worth,50 Cent filed for bankruptcy in Connecticut, incurring an automatic stay in the Manhattan trial. final week, or Leviston’s attorneys moved for relief from the stayto allow the moment piece of the sentencing to move forward—and,on Friday, a judge granted that motion, and over 50 Cent’s lawyers’ objections.http://defamer.gawker.com/50-cent-wishes... Read more... ,

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