50 Cent After More Money
This past Friday (July 20), 50 Cent
and his team of lawyers filed a lawsuit against internet advertisting company Traffix Inc. over a series of controversial
ad banners (shown below).
The lawsuit is said to be for the amount of $1 million. Suing for damages
caused from Traffix Inc. for illegally using his image on
their “Shoot the Rapper” campaign as well as a undisclosed amount for punitive
damages and a permanent injuction barring the use of his image without
permission, according to the Associated
Press.
Although 50 Cent’s
name isn’t specified within the animated ad banner; “it looks like him, and there’s no doubt the character is intended to
be him,” says Peter Raymond, the
attorney representing 50 Cent.
Lil Flip Flipped the Wrong Card
This Saturday (July 21) Houston rapper Lil
Flip turned himself in on felony charges after allegedly purchasing an
airplane ticket with another persons’ American Express card.
On June 8, authorities claim that Lil Flip
purchased a Southwest Airlines ticket to Baltimore, with a credit card owned by
another man named Jordan Salinger
for the amount of $671.
According to court documents the purchase was unauthorized and
the man who bought the ticket on the phone only went by “Wesley” (Flip’s real name is Wesley Eric Weston, Jr.).
Flip claims innocence
and told authorities that a man named Kevin
Frank purchased the ticket. Later denied by Frank, who says he never purchased the ticket and doesn’t even know
Flip.
Flip was released
shortly after turning himself over on $2,000 bond and is scheduled to appear in
court today (July 22).
