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R&B singer Teairra Mari sued 50 Cent for reposting her leaked explicit photo with the caption "get the strap." A judge ordered her to pay him $30,618. In the video below, she says it in one breath: 50 released the tape, her case got dropped, she has to pay him. Her own Instagram posted it first. On May 9, 2018, the day after she broke up with Akbar Abdul-Ahad, a sex tape and a photo of her went up on her account while she was a cast member on Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood. She said he logged in with her password. He denied it. She says she took the posts down right away. 50 Cent put one of the photos on his page anyway. Eight days later she sat next to Lisa Bloom at a press conference and announced a lawsuit against both men. 50's defense was simple: by the time he posted it, the photo was already all over the internet. In January 2019 a judge threw out her case against him. 50's lawyers asked her to pay $161,660.15 of his fees. The judge gave him $30,618. She still says, "he didn't win the lawsuit." Her lawyer, she says, had walked away from the case. Then 50 started trolling her about the money in public. When she answered with a song called "I Ain't Got It," the phrase showed up on his merch, with his note: "Somebody forgot to trademark this, so I'll just take it." She filmed herself at a Western Union counter, asking to send him 50 cents. The bill kept growing. She didn't hand over her bank statements, and by February 2020 the court had added nearly $10,000 in sanctions. "Do you think you can have my Money by Monday," 50 wrote that month. One repost for him. $30,618 for her. Instagram took his post down. Her bill stayed. Was 50 Cent just collecting what a judge said Teairra Mari owed him, or did he turn her leaked photo into a joke, a T-shirt and a $30,618 bill?