The star's lawyers say Shaniqua Tompkins forfeited her right to respond to his case, but an appeals court was hardly receptive to that argument.
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50 Cent’s attorney faced a brutal grilling from New York appeals court judges as he argued that the star deserved to automatically win a lawsuit he filed against an ex-girlfriend over her “tell-all” Instagram posts.
The rapper sued Shaniqua Tompkins last year, claiming her videos violated an agreement she signed in 2007, in which she allegedly sold the star her life rights in perpetuity. Her lawyers fired back in January that she was coerced into signing the deal with threats and intimidation.
