In one of his tweets after a hearing on Wednesday, 50 Cent posted an Instagram photo of his old pair of Jordans, letting everybody know that he can not even afford to buy a new pair of shoes, and capturing the photo, “My guess is this image is court approved”.
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However, the case might have taken a new turn after a billboard magazine report revealed that the USA secret service may be lurking around, because posing with counterfeit money is a crime.
The rapper was mocked after he flaunting wads of cash on his Instagram page since September a year ago, including one photo in which he spelled out the word “broke” with stacks of United States dollars 100 bills.
50 Cent was ordered to appear in bankruptcy court in Hartford on Wednesday, after the judge and USA trustee’s office raised questions about his finances, including what looked like cash bundles in his Instagram photos.
According to the Wall Street Journal, a good deal of the posts, 50 Cent claimed, were merely promotional efforts for Effen Vodka and his song, “Too Rich”. He wrote, “I went to court today and all I felt was love”.
What do you think – is 50 Cent playing the system?
The rapper, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, filed last July, days after a jury ordered him to pay US$5 million (S$6.9 million) to a woman who accused him of posting a sex tape of her online.
The extent of 50 Cent’s money troubles stem back to 2015, when the rapper filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy in February of that year, reporting assets and debts between $10 million and $50 million. The album was nominated for a Grammy and went on to sell more than 8 million copies.
“Just because I am photographed in or next to a certain vehicle, wearing an article of clothing, holding a product, sitting next to what appears to be large sums of money, or modeling expensive pieces of jewelry does not meant that I own everything in those photos”, 50 Cent said.
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“What I say and what I do on social media has a direct impact on my music sales and the viewership on my television shows”.
