50 Cent's ex ordered to pay back rent

NEW YORK, June 11 (UPI) -- A Manhattan Supreme Court judge ordered 50 Cent's ex-girlfriend to pay $4,500 in rent to the rapper for a Long Island, N.Y., house that burned down last month.

"She better pay it by the end of the week. Do you understand?" the New York Post quoted Justice Carol Edmead as telling Shaniqua Tompkins' attorney Paul Catsandonis at a hearing for Tompkins' $50 million breach-of-contract suit against 50 Cent, whose real name is Curtis Jackson.

Catsandonis asked the judge to give Tompkins more time, stating it would be an "undue hardship" for her to pay now since the home she and her 10-year-old son Marquise had been living in recently burned down.

The Post said Jackson has been trying to evict Tompkins from the $2.4 million Dix Hills house he owns for the past year. He is said to have been particularly irked because Tompkins moved her boyfriend into the house.

Jackson has also been paying Tompkins $6,700 a month in support, which includes $4,500 a month for housing even though Tompkins hadn't moved out of the house.

Another judge has already ordered Tompkins to repay 50 Cent $9,000 in housing costs; however, she hasn't given that back either, the Post said.