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50 Cent features in sex tape of Rick Ross' ex ; gets sued
by Natalie James - February 26, 2010 - comments
She alleges in her lawsuit that Fitty used her name and image without her permission and caused her emotional distress as the video has since been seen millions of times.
U.S. rapper 50 Cent is being sued by a Florida woman who claims he edited and posted her private sex video on his Web site without her consent, according to multiple tabloid reports.
Florida resident Lastonia Leviston, who has sued the rapper in New York, says she and her former lover, Maurice Murray, filmed themselves engaging in sexually explicit activities in June 2008, the New York Daily News reports.
Rapper in legal hot water
Now, Leviston is suing the 34-year-old In Da Club star for putting out her 2008 homemade sex video over the Internet last year.
Leviston filed a lawsuit against 50 Cent in New York Supreme Court on Wednesday, in which she claims that the rapper unlawfully distributed her private sex video over the Internet after editing the video clipping, Daily reports.
Sex video "hijacked"
According to the Daily, Leviston believes that contrary to his promise to destroy the tape her ex "transferred or sold" it to the rapper.
50 Cent, real name Curtis Jackson, then allegedly edited the video, blurring out her ex lover's face and putting himself into it as a wig-wearing narrator.
She alleges in her lawsuit that Fitty used her name and image without her permission and caused her emotional distress as the video has since been seen millions of times.
The lawsuit claims the rapper posted the video on his Web site, ThisIs50.com, describing the sex taking place.
In addition to the rapper’s Web site, the video made it onto YouTube and other video-sharing sites, seen by millions, the suit claims.
If the reports are to be believed, 50 Cent released the tape last year in the midst of his long-simmering feud with rapper Rick Ross, a burly Miami rapper whose real name is William Leonard Roberts II. Leviston is the mother of Rick Ross' daughter.
The explicit commentary
In the 13-minute edited video, Leviston is seen showing off a tattoo on her chest with the initials "RR," seemingly in reference to Rick Ross, and the rapper is heard narrating throughout the action, wearing curly black wig and purple robe, according to the Daily report.
"Ooh, she grindin', is she a grinder?" Fitty can be heard saying on the audio track as a white lingerie-clad Leviston romps on a leather couch with a man whose face is blurred out.
Throughout the X-rated video he refers to the woman as a "nasty b***," alleges Leviston is Ross' baby mama, and labels her as a "nice little s***."
"Ricky don't know how to do that!" the rapper chuckles mockingly during his commentary after the blurred-face man in red boxer shorts is seen smacking Leviston's backside.