
Last updated: Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Rapper 50 CENT has been ordered to pay an undisclosed figure after assaulting a photographer.
The hip-hop star - real name Curtis Jackson - attacked the New York Post's deputy photo assignment editor Jim Alcorn in 2003.
Alcorn filed a lawsuit claiming he was assaulted after taking a photograph of the star as he left a jewellery shop. He sustained neck and jaw injuries.
Alcorn's lawyer Sanford Rubenstein tells New York gossip column PageSix, "A settlement was reached and all parties are satisfied."
A spokesman for Jackson says, "It's a legal issue that's been settled."
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- 50 CENT WORKER ARRESTED AT RAPPER'S MANSION
- 50 CENT SHAVES MILLIONS MORE OFF CONNECTICUT MANSION PRICE TAG
- 50 CENT DEDICATES NEW MIXTAPE TO JACKSON
- MIDLER PLANS ODD DUET WITH 50 CENT
- 50 REFUTES STALLONE SACKING REPORTS
- 50 CENT'S ALBUM DELAYED TO MAKE WAY FOR EMINEM
- 50 IS SECOND TOP AFRICAN-AMERICAN EARNER
- 50 CENT CAUGHT UP IN VITAMINWATER LAWSUIT
- ROSS DISMISSES 50 CENT ATTACK
Source: WENN
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