50 Cent Fracas W/ Baby Mama Caught On Tape, Rapper's Ex & Son Escape Suspicious Blaze
May 31,2008
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While the home that housed 50 Cent's ex-girlfriend and son went up in flames this morning, a new video hit the net showing 50 and the mother of his son arguing on a Manhattan street.
TMZ has obtained the video of the fracas that took place Monday afternoon. The fight, which got pretty heated, was triggered after both showed up for a deposition concerning their ongoing battle concerning 50's house.
During the deposition on Monday, someone in the G-Unit Capo's entourage trashed Tompkin's lawyer's office which led to a police report being filed. This reportedly resulted in the fight spilling out into the street.
According to New York Newsday reports, early Friday morning a raging fire gutted the Dix Hills home, causing 50 Cent's ex-girlfriend Shaniqua Tomkins and 10-year-old son Marquise to suffer smoke inhalation.
"She was all right," eyewitness Frank Hoyte, a Newsday employee said, "But she was angry."
Hoyte said Tompkins stood in her bathrobe barefoot outside the home while it burned. Two young boys, one of them Marquise, two teenage girls and "an older woman" were also standing with Tompkins.
According to Suffolk County Police and fire officials the fire was reported at 5 a.m. One of the first firefighters to arrive on the scene characterized the fire as suspicious based on how quickly the home was engulfed.
"The rapid movement of the fire. The volume of the fire . . . It was engulfed. The home was totally gutted," Dix Hills Fire Dept. Chief Larry Feld told Newsday of the scene. "I would say there is a strong -- a strong, strong -- possibility that it is suspicious."
Feld said all six people in the home were transported to HuntingtonHospital. Police and fire officials said investigators from the Suffolk County Arson Squad and the Suffolk Fire Marshal's office are at the fire scene, investigating the cause of the blaze.
Officials were forced to close down nearby Route 231 at Vanderbilt Parkway because of the flames.
"The fire was huge, I mean huge," neighbor Debra Lotz said. "I watched the whole fire from our pool . . . It burned down to the ground."
The six bedroom, five bathroom home is located on one acre and has a heated four-car garage and a pool.
As previously reported, the home, which is located at 2 Sandra Drive, has been part of a contentious court battle between 50, whose real name is Curtis Jackson and Tompkins. After purchasing the home in January 2007 for a reported $1.4 million, 50 attempted to evict Tompkins last month. The Queens rapper was demanding that Tompkins leave or pay $4,500 a month in rent.
Tompkins responded by filing a lawsuit against Jackson in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, claiming "breach of contract" since she alleges 50 promised to put all or part of the house in her name.
In April a judge ruled Tomkins had the end of the school year to vacate the home.
An attorney for Tompkins declined to comment on this morning's fire.