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50 Cent files for bankruptcy protection

RAPPER 50 Cent has filed for bankruptcy protection after he was ordered to pay millions of dollars to a woman following the loss of a lawsuit.

US rapper 50 Cent has filed for bankruptcy, which would protect him from paying creditors.
US rapper 50 Cent has filed for bankruptcy, which would protect him from paying creditors.

RAPPER 50 Cent has filed for federal bankruptcy protection, after a jury ordered him to pay $US5 million ($A6.74 million) in an invasion-of-privacy lawsuit.

THE rapper-actor, whose real name is Curtis Jackson III, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in US District Court in Hartford on Monday. He owns a 50,000-square-foot mansion in nearby Farmington.

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