50 Cent has made the news more for his legal woes than his music for the better part of the year, but this time Mr. Jackson is switching roles as he has just sued a former work affiliate for not holding up his part of a legal deal.
According to Connecticut Bankruptcy Court records, 50 agreed to pay Andrew Jameson a monthly consulting fee of $120,000 in exchange for Jameson's help with several G-Unit ventures during his first year of hire. The second year he was to be given $150,000, but 50 claims Jameson did not fulfill his consultant duties before the agreement expired on December 31, 2014. The documents states "Jameson was well aware that there was no new agreement in place" at that point, nor was a new one ever discussed. Jameson agreed to continue to work with them, however, allegedly telling G-Unit Vice president Nikki Martin that he'd "work for whatever as long as he did not go broke."
After the agreement ended, Jameson reportedly went on to get a television deal for G-Unit on the E! network, a reality series aptly-titled "The Unit." Martin advised Jameson not to go through with it until he spoke to 50 Cent personally, but he never got it approved and instead went on to finalize the deal - 50 says his relationship with E! Entertainment and it's parent company, NBC Universal, was "severely damaged" because of it. As a result of Jameson's actions, the lawsuit states 50 Cent and G-Unit have suffered at least $810,000 in damages in addition to costs and attorney's fees.
Stay tuned for more as the case progresses.
