50 Cent Settles Mansion Lawsuit

06/08/09 2:15pm

by Kate Harper (CHARTattack)

50 Cent has settled a lawsuit he filed against an engineering firm over repairs and renovations to the Connecticut mansion he bought from boxer Mike Tyson six years ago.

Details of the settlement aren't known, but 50 Cent (real name Curtis Jackson) sued BVH Integrated Services because when he bought the 19-bedroom, 37-bathroom mansion, the company told him it required an estimated $500,000 U.S. worth of repairs and he ended up paying $6 million U.S. instead, the Associated Press reports. The case went to trial on Tuesday.

On a related note, why are there more bathrooms than bedrooms in this house? We get that it's a mansion with a nightclub and recording studio, but if even half those bathrooms needed "repairs," there's your answer for why it cost $6 million to fix. It's expensive to bling out a toilet seat in gold leaf, motherfucka!

50 Cent's lawyers told the court the rapper had spent an additional $3 million U.S. on repairs that should have been included in BVH's estimate, and made an additional $3 million worth of upgrades thereafter. BVH's lawyer said the company should not have been liable for the difference because the upgrades were "extravagant and costly."

50 Cent sued the firm in 2006 and then put the mansion up for sale for $18.5 million U.S. Nobody bought it and the house is no longer for sale.