{"id":3108,"date":"2015-06-24T13:26:38","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T21:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/?p=3108"},"modified":"2015-06-24T13:26:38","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T21:26:38","slug":"50-cent-sex-tape-was-for-entertainment-purposes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/50-cent-sex-tape-was-for-entertainment-purposes\/","title":{"rendered":"50 Cent: Sex tape was for &#8216;entertainment purposes&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s adult entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>Rapper 50 Cent admitted that he fibbed &#8220;for entertainment purposes&#8221; when he said in a radio interview that he bought and posted a sex tape starring rival Rick Ross&#8217; baby mama, according to a deposition played Monday in Manhattan Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>Fitty, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, told radio host Tim Westwood that he posted the 2008 sex tape of Lastonia Leviston and her then-boyfriend in a dig at Ross and to hype up the &#8220;beef&#8221; between them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was taking the scenario and changing it for entertainment purposes,&#8221; he said in the October 2011 video-recorded deposition.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t actually physically put the clip up myself. It was just in conversation to simply what had transpired.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Leviston, the mother of one of Ross&#8217; kids, sued the &#8220;In Da Club&#8221; rapper for posting the steamy video online without her permission.<\/p>\n<p>Fitty has claimed he took the video from Leviston&#8217;s then-boyfriend but never posted it, instead blaming Ross for putting it up first.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re saying someone hacked into your Gmail account and stole this skit?&#8221; asked Leviston&#8217;s attorney Philip Freidlin in the roughly two-hour deposition.<\/p>\n<p>Fitty answered, &#8220;Right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The rapper&#8217;s deposition continues Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2015\/06\/22\/fitty-i-lied-about-sex-tape\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">article source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s adult entertainment. Rapper 50 Cent admitted that he fibbed &#8220;for entertainment purposes&#8221; when he said in a radio interview that he bought and posted a sex tape starring rival Rick Ross&#8217; baby mama, according&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1302],"class_list":["post-3108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3109,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3108\/revisions\/3109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}