50 Cent's Long Island Mansion burns down
In published reports, Superstar rapper 50 Cent's mansion burned to the ground Friday - and his enraged ex-girlfriend, who was living in the house with their son, accused the entertainer of torching the $2.4 million Long Island home.
Shaniqua Tompkins and two of her children, including the rapper's 10-year-old son, Marquise, were among six people who fled the early morning Dix Hills blaze.
"He tried to kill me and his own child," Tompkins claimed, as she stood screaming outside the decimated mansion hours after the inferno. 50 Cent's reps refused to respond to her allegations.
Citing the intensity and "sheer volume of the fire," Dix Hills Fire Chief Larry Feld called the blaze "highly suspicious." He said the fire ignited on the first floor.
Arson investigators were seen taking away a 5-gallon gas container found on the edge of the sprawling property off Deer Park Road. No arrests were made.
Tompkins said the blaze erupted just before 5 a.m. and was the result of a "firebomb."
Court records show 50 Cent, the registered owner of the two-story house, had been trying to get Tompkins evicted.
She alleged Friday that the rapper, born Curtis Jackson, threatened her just days ago during a deposition in her lawyer's Tribeca office.
"He threatened me on Monday. He said, 'Watch what I'll do. I'll have someone come kill you,' " said Tompkins, who has filed a Manhattan Supreme Court suit claiming she's entitled to half of 50 Cent's fortune and the house that's now in ruins.
In her suit, Tompkins claimed the rapper promised to give her the house 12 years ago and a judge stayed the eviction until the facts were litigated. "That's a moot point now," said Tompkins' lawyer Paul Catsandonis.
50 Cent, who was filming a movie in Louisiana Friday, released a statement saying he "is extremely thankful that everyone including his son, Marquise, escaped the burning house safely."
His lawyer, Brett Kimmel, said, "I'm shocked about this," adding that "it would be inappropriate" for him to say more about the incident or Tompkins' allegations.
Authorities said Tompkins, her children, her boyfriend's two kids and a nanny were treated for smoke inhalation at Huntington Hospital and later released.
Off-duty Suffolk cop Douglas Bose helped them escape. Bose said he was driving home when he saw the flames. He rushed to the rescue of two adults and four children crawling from a side window, helping them down from a 12-foot-high roof.
Catsandonis confirmed his office was trashed Monday when Tompkins' boyfriend and two of his pals got into a fight with 50 Cent's bodyguard. The brawl spilled onto Broadway. The celebrity Web site TMZ posted a video showing 50 Cent and Tompkins screaming outside
Catsandonis' office and friends pulling him to an SUV.
"The timing of all this is very disturbing," Catsandonis said of the fire.
Having read, many different stories in relation to this matter I am not so puzzled as most would be. I mean the house did belong to 50 Cent on one hand, so he can do whatever he chooses to as far as evicting her from the house. But damn how cold is that... It seems obvious that he bought the home for her and the kid. However, I did read somewhere that she moved her new boyfriend in... now that ain't cool. I don't care if my ex was paying on a one room shack ain't no way I would be moving my next man in, sorry! She just doesn't seem like the sharpest knife in the draw... If I am following the story right, he was voluntarily paying her 25, 000 per month in child support and she got to live in the house. However for some reason she didn't feel that was god enough, so she took him to Court for more money... Sidebar: I just want to know what the hell she was going to do with more money. Anyway, the judge reduced her payments to $6,700.00 per month still not too shabby but damn 80,000 per year tax-free I'll take that and at that point she got to keep the house. But she made the ultimate dummy move and moved her new man in, who probably doesn't have job the first.
It was a tragedy that the house caught on fire, and I am glad everyone made it out but damn this sure is a mess.
Stay tuned for tomorrow's blog for an update on Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
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