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50 Cent gives up control of Instagram account
By Andy Malt | Published on Monday 14 March 2016
50 Cent handed over control of his Instagram account to his management team last week, after his own use of the social media profile got him in trouble with the courts.
As previously reported, the rapper was called in to court last week to answer questions about photographs he had posted showing him posing with piles of money. This was of interest to judges as 50 Cent declared himself bankrupt last year. The bankruptcy coincided with a court ruling that he must pay damages of $7 million to Lastonia Leviston, after he posted online a video of her having sex without permission. The sex tape stunt was part of 50 Cent’s ongoing feud with rival rapper Rick Ross, who has a child with Leviston.
The management team’s first job with the Instagram account was to delete a series of posts in which 50 Cent ranted about how he felt he’d been badly treated by the court. “I was accused of committing fraud with nothing but [an Instagram] photo”, he said in one. “I [couldn’t] care less what these people think of me, but it’s not right. Now someone from [the] Secret Service is asking if [the] prop money was [counterfeit]. How the fuck would I know that, shithead?”
