50 Cent Slapped With $3M Defamation Lawsuit
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Executives at HipHopDX.com are suing the 'In Da Club' hitmaker for allegedly branding their website 'fake news' over a story they published earlier this year.

AceShowbiz - Rapper 50 Cent has reportedly been slapped with a $3 million (£2.3 million) defamation lawsuit.

Executives at HipHopDX.com are suing the In Da Club hitmaker for allegedly branding their website "fake news" over a story they published earlier this year, after 50 claimed to have cashed in on his popular "Get the strap" phrase.

"The celebrity known as 50 Cent has maliciously used his power and influence to falsely attack a small, independent media company for its unfavorable but entirely truthful content," the lawsuit reads. "In late June 2018, it exposed as false certain public statements made by 50 Cent claiming to have sold the rights to a three-word catchphrase for a million dollars."

According to The Blast, after the story went live, the rapper, real name Curtis Jackson, labelled the website a "bogus news outlet that does not check its facts".

Website bosses are seeking $3 million in damages.

The news emerges weeks after 50 Cent filed his own suit against outlet officials for copyright infringement after they allegedly used a photo of him without his permission to accompany their story.

However, they denied his claims and insisted he did not own the rights to the picture at the time of publication, going on to allege he "obtained the rights to for the sole purpose of bringing this lawsuit".

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