*A New York City jury found that 50 Cent must pay an additional $2 million in punitive damages to Lastonia Leviston, the woman featured in a sex tape the rapper posted to the Internet.
The jurors’ decision Friday came two weeks after they ordered the multiplatinum-selling artist to pay $5 million to Leviston.
Leviston’s invasion-of-privacy lawsuit argues that Fiddy, born Curtis Jackson III, posted a crudely narrated 13-minute sex-tape she made with a boyfriend in 2008. In the video, he taunts rival rapper Rick Ross, who isn’t featured in the video but has a child with Leviston.
After the jury’s verdict, Jackson filed for bankruptcy protection in Connecticut.
A lawyer for Leviston had urged jurors to award her $15 million. Jackson’s attorney had asked them to order he pay $700,000.
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