From the New York Daily News:
50 Cent took the rap but won’t go to jail after a nuclear fight with his California baby mama.
The Queens-bred rapper pleaded no contest Monday to a single count of misdemeanor vandalism of his ex-girlfriend’s Los Angeles residence in exchange for dismissal of his sole domestic violence charge.
“We’re glad that the domestic charge was dismissed, and he took this agreement just to put the whole matter behind him and get on with his life,” his lawyer Scott Leemon told the Daily News.
Leemon entered the plea in a Van Nuys, Calif., courtroom on his client’s behalf and said the vandalism count “deals with the door of the apartment that was damaged and owned by the landlord.”
50 Cent, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, was sentenced to three years unsupervised probation, mandatory counseling and a month of community service.
The Los Angeles City Attorney’s office originally filed the case saying the “Get Rich or Die Tryin’” rapper went berserk inside model Daphne Joy’s Toluca Lake condo June 23, destroying more than $7,000 worth of property.
Joy, the mother of Jackson’s 1-year-old son Sire, claimed she locked herself in a bedroom to escape the meltdown, and that’s when Jackson allegedly busted down the door and kicked her, causing injury.
Officers rushed to the scene and found a smashed chandelier, a broken TV, a ransacked bedroom closet and Joy’s clothes thrown all over the floor, cops said.
If convicted of domestic violence and the four original vandalism counts, Jackson could have received five years in jail and up to $46,000 in fines.
A judge previously told Jackson, 38, he had to stay at least 100 yards away from Joy and either turn in all of his firearms to law enforcement or sell them to licensed gun dealers.
In 2008, Jackson’s ex-girlfriend Shaniqua Tompkins claimed the rapper was behind a fire that destroyed her Long Island home.
The “P.I.M.P.” singer was cleared of suspicion.
