Lastonia Leviston filed a lawsuit on Wednesday in Manhattan claiming unauthorized use of her name or image and emotional distress caused by the public release of a video she made with a lover in 2008.

The lawsuit claims 50 Cent posted the video on his Web site last year after blurring out the lover’s face. It also claims the rapper introduces the video while wearing a curly wig and fluffy blue robe and can be heard narrating throughout.

The rapper’s real name is Curtis Jackson. His lawyer hasn’t responded to a phone message seeking comment.

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50 cent has announced he will not release his next album until Eminem’s new album ‘relapse’ comes out.

NEW YORK – 50 Cent is taking a back seat to Eminem.

The rapper says he won’t release his “Before I Self Destruct” CD until Eminem’s album — tentatively titled “Relapse” — sees the light of day.

“Right now I’m on a train, and the Em-choo-choo-car goes first. I think people forgot that I’m actually Eminem’s artist because I’ve had so much success on my own and moved away from it,” the 32-year-old multiplatinum rapper said in an interview Tuesday.

“Because Dre is mixing Em’s album, Em will be completed entirely before we get a chance to finish up the pieces that me and Dre did together (for my album),” he added.

50 may have a long wait. While Eminem’s CD is expected this year, no release date has been set.

But it’s not the first time 50 has pushed back his album. The CD was expected to come out last December but was delayed. Back then, 50 said because elements of it weren’t complete, so he set a March release date.

Right now, Eminem’s got the most buzz musically. His first single, “Crack a Bottle,” which features 50 Cent and Dr. Dre, hit No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 singles chart earlier this month.

The trio recorded the song in Eminem’s hometown, Detroit, and 50 said the collaboration between the rappers is a reflection of their camaraderie, and Dr. Dre’s musical magic.

“(That’s) what happens when I actually work with Dr. Dre. I make great music away from him, but organically something happens when we’re in the same room, and it’s like his influence in different ways and we just make hit music together. ‘In Da Club,’ my biggest record to date, was me and Dre. We have a great relationship so there’s no reason for us to not go back in and make more.”

But 50 Cent fans can still hear new music from the entertainer. His new video game, “50 Cent: Blood On the Sand,” released this week, features 18 exclusive tracks, including one with Swizz Beatz, who composed the score. The rapper says the video game allowed him to tap into his musical vault for previously unreleased material.

“It was an opportunity for me to get to the material that I missed because on every album I over-write (the songs) on the album, and then (there’s) the song you wished you could have put on but you didn’t,” he said. “I had an opportunity to put like five or six of those songs on there and then create the rest of the material for the actual video game.”

“Blood on the Sand” follows 50 and G-Unit as they hunt down a crime gang whose stolen their diamond encrusted skull in a war-torn country. 50 said a visit to Iraq influenced some of the game’s features.

“After performing for the soldiers, you look at the people there and you use your imagination to say, ‘What are they actually feeling? What are they going through?’,” he said. “It was an experience but the game itself, I brought some of those experiences I had in to it and that’s why it looks the way it looks.”

50 Cent’s first video game, “50 Cent: Bulletproof,” was released in 2005

The pair star together in new movie Righteous Kill – and 50 Cent reveals that between scenes they discussed managing their massive bank balances.

The star – real name Curtis Jackson – tells British radio station Heart, “Everyone thought I was going to ask Robert for acting tips but I didn’t. I did ask him about everything else though.

“We talked money and out private investments and everything else away from acting because I do pretty good.”

The rapper insists De Niro gives good advice: “I have made some pretty impressive deals off the back of that. You probably don’t know about those but I do. I’ve been doing okay.”
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Hip-hop star 50 Cent has vowed to silence his ongoing feud with Cam’Ron by selling more records than his rap rival could ever dream of.

50 and Cam’ron have been embroiled in a feud since their on-air clash on New York radio station Hot 97 in February (07).

A week later, 50 Cent released Funeral Music – a track aimed at Cam’ron – online, who responded with Cuurtis – named in reference to 50’s real name, Curtis Jackson.

50 believes Cam’ron’s group The Diplomats (Dipset) would be more successful if they dropped Cam’ron from the line-up and promoted bandmember Jim Jones to frontman.

He says, “After an altercation is caused, I have no intentions of resolving it. I don’t believe you can resolve a situation with someone you didn’t initiate. If they caused it, there’s nothing you can do on your end. You didn’t actually ask for it so it’s there. And you make it – you pound away at him with the consistency of releasing quality material ’til his ass is dust. He’s gone and everybody that surrounds him gets it in the end, too.

I would not mess with Mr 50 Cent, this is one guy you don’t want to get into a feud with.

The rapper-and-actor is about to become considerably richer after Coca-Cola bought his Vitamin Water drink, Formula 50.

The soft drinks giant has just paid a staggering $4.1 billion to drinks company Glaceau, which 50 joined as a shareholder in 2004.

In exchange for his share in the company’s profits, Glaceau named a Vitamin Water drink, Formula 50, after the artist.

As a ten per cent shareholder in the beverage, 50 Cent will see his fortune rocket from the Coca-Cola deal.

The ‘Get Rich or Die Tryin’ star was profiled by finance magazine Forbes last year, after transforming his urban image into a multi-million dollar empire.

This guy is a true bad ass! He’s also a past client of mine and a nice guy. This guy is a true entrepreneur and I had a feeling the vitamin water might work out for 50.

The rapper is to put his name to a new line of rubber sheaths and has revealed he is to donate a percentage of the profits to a HIV charity.
50, who recently announced that he has co-written three novels, said: “The kids become immune when you constantly beat them over the head, ‘Read a book, read a book.’ We have to be a little more creative about it.”

“It’s the same with safe sex. As opposed to being part of a safe sex campaign, I’m going to make condoms and donate a part of the proceeds to HIV awareness.”
The three books that 50, real name Curtis Jackson, has penned are entitled “Death Before Dishonour,” “Baby Brother,” and “The Ski Mask Way” and are based on the experiences of him and his G-Unit band.
Reports are rife that “The Ski Mask Way” is to be made into a film starring 50.
He has previously appeared in the semi-autobiographical “Get Rich or Die Tryin” and has landed a role opposite screen legend Robert De Niro in “New Orleans” which is due out in 2008.

Source: BANG Showbiz