50 Cent's ex and their 10-year-old son have to be out of the rapper’s Dix Hills house by April 30, says his Manhattan attorney Brett Kimmel. In the meantime, Shaniqua Tompkins has filed suit in Supreme Court in Manhattan alleging “breach of contract.”
Tompkins says that 50 Cent promised to put all or part of the house in her name. Instead, the 5,200-square-foot house is in his name — Curtis Jackson. He bought the house in January 2007 for $1.4 million. Taxes are $16,815 a year. “It’s a very big home,” says Paul Catsandonis, Tompkins’ attorney. And, he adds, 50 Cent “was planning to live in that house ... as a family.”
The home is located on an acre and has six bedrooms and five bathrooms, as well as a three-car heated garage with a dumbwaiter to the kitchen. The house, built in 2002, also has a pool. The previous owner, builder Robert Defeo, built the house for himself and his family.
Once Tompkins and son are out of the house, it is unclear what 50 Cent will do with the property, Kimmel says. In the meantime, Catsandonis says, Tompkins plans to appeal the eviction. "I think it's preposterous to view your son as a trespasser -- a minor at that," Catsandonis says.
Read more about the house -- and the fight -- here.
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