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Get rich or lie trying?
In a recent bankruptcy filing, 50 Cent admitted that he did not make $8 million in bitcoin by accepting the cryptocurrency as a form of payment for his album Animal Ambition in 2014.
According to TMZ, 50 filed a sworn declaration in bankruptcy court stating,"[I have] never owned and [do] not now own, a bitcoin account or any bitcoins, and to the best of his knowledge, none of his companies had a bitcoin account from 2014 to the present."
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Last month, reports suggested he earned 700 bitcoins, which would have been worth between $7 million and $8 million during the crypto boom a few weeks ago.
50 claimed the album did not accept bitcoin, but payments were converted to U.S. dollars by a third party before it ever reached him and his companies. This new claim may be the rapper's way out of reporting bitcoin assets to the court.
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In response to why 50 went along with the false reports, in one of the document's clauses he states, “As a general matter, so long as a press story is not irreparably damaging to my image or brand, I usually do not feel the need to publicly deny the reporting," and “This is particularly true when I feel the press report in question is favorable to my image or brand, even if the report is based on a misunderstanding of the facts or contains outright falsehoods.”
