50 cent charged with attacking ex

Rapper and actor 50 Cent has been charged with attacking his ex-girlfriend and wrecking her Los Angeles apartment.

The 37-year-old In da Club singer, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, was charged with domestic violence and four counts of vandalism. If convicted, he faces up to five years in jail and US $46,000 dollars (€35,400) in fines.

Jackson had already left when officers arrived on June 23 at an apartment belonging to a woman who had a baby with him, police said.

During an argument, the woman told police, Jackson began destroying her property before she locked herself into her bedroom. The woman said Jackson kicked open the bedroom door and kicked her, causing injury.

Police said they estimated there was about US $7,100 of damage to the woman’s home and saw many broken items in the ransacked, clothes-strewn apartment, including chandeliers, furniture and a television.

The woman told police she had been in a three-year relationship with Jackson.

The rapper has referenced drug dealing and violence in many songs and is known for having survived nine gunshots in an attempted assassination.

He starred in an autobiographical account of his life as a drug dealer in Get Rich Or Die Tryin’.