Fifty Cent’s baby mama has to pay the rapper $4,500 rent for her now-burned-down home – and she has to come up with the cash by Friday, a Manhattan judge ruled yesterday.
Shaniqua Tompkins never paid Fitty the rent for staying in his Dix Hills home for the month of May, despite Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Carol Edmead’s order for her to do so.
“She better pay it by the end of the week. Do you understand?” Edmead told Tompkins’ lawyer, Paul Catsandonis, at a hearing yesterday for Tompkins’ $50 million breach-of-contract suit against the rapper.
Catsandonis urged the judge to give his client more time to pay, saying it would be an “undue hardship” for his client to come up with the cash right now because the home she and 10-year-old Marquise had been living in burned down under mysterious circumstances.
The $2.4 million Dix Hills home is owned by 50 Cent, whose real name is Curtis Jackson. He had been trying to kick her out for the past year, in part because he was upset that Tompkins’ boyfriend was living there. Tompkins accuses the rap star of setting the fire.
Fitty has denied any involvement with the May 30 blaze. He didn’t attend the hearing because he’s filming a movie in Louisiana, said his lawyer, Brett Kimmel.
He’s been paying Tompkins $6,700 a month in support, which includes $4,500 a month for a new place to live. Kimmel noted that she never moved, and had just been holding on to the $4,500. He said another judge has already ordered Tompkins to repay 50 Cent $9,000, which she also has yet to do.
Edmead noted that Tompkins hadn’t submitted any papers or receipts to show what she’s been spending the housing money on, or why she can’t pay 50 Cent.
“You can’t tell me where [the money’s] gone,” she said.
The judge also ordered the rap star not to transfer title of the Dix Hills property.
After the hearing, Tompkins, 32, insisted she doesn’t have two nickels to rub together.
“We lost everything,” she said. “All we have is the clothes we jumped out of the window with.”
Tompkins said 50 Cent hasn’t reached out to his son to see how he’s coping in the aftermath of the fire.
“He was traumatized, and now you have a father on a movie set who’s made no attempt to communicate with him, which is more traumatizing,” she said.
“He’s not a good father at all. At all,” she said.