50 Cent Not Cleared In Fire

05/11/09 12:21pm

by Kate Harper (CHARTattack)

Rap star 50 Cent hasn't been cleared of wrongdoing in the fire that destroyed his Long Island, N.Y. mansion last year, police say.

The man whose real name is Curtis Jackson's website stated he'd been cleared of involvement in the fire last week, but police told The Associated Press that wasn't the case.

"That fire is still under investigation," detective Thomas Wieland of the Suffolk County police department told the news service. "It hasn't been closed either way."

No suspects have been named in the incident.

Keesha Johnson, 50 Cent's spokesperson, said the rapper had been "paid a settlement by the insurer for the house," which led her to believe that her employer had been cleared of involvement.

Shaniqua Tompkins, 50 Cent's ex-girlfriend, had been living in the $2.4 million mansion with her two sons — one of whom is her child with the rapper — at the time of the fire.

Fiddy had been involved in a legal dispute with Tompkins at the time, and a judge had ordered her to leave the home a month before the fire. Tompkins was still living in the house because she was appealing the decision. Both she and 50 Cent blamed each other for the fire, and later filed restraining orders against each other.

The hip-hop star's long-delayed Before I Self Destruct is scheduled to come out in June. He also appears on Eminem's "comeback" album, Relapse, which is due out on May 19.