Rapper 50 Cent‘s roughly $500 million net worth he made from
the sale of his sugary drink just took a major hit in a court
case from a headphones manufacturer who claims he stole their high-tech design.
A judge agreed, and has ordered 50 cent to pay up to $16.1 million to the tech company.
Jackson’s feud with the headphone company has raged for more
than a year, but a judge finally signed off on the total due to his final
business partners, Sleek headphones: $11,693,247 in damages, plus $4,488,331 in
attorney’s fees.
Sleek sued 50 Cent last year after a planned deal to market
headphones for the rapper fell through. After investing more than $1 million in
Sleek to start his line, Jackson then produced another set of headphones with a
different company, and according to court documents obtained by Radar, Sleek
was stunned to discover the headphones, Sync by 50, were “basically the same
design, mechanically” as the model they had developed.
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