Rapper 50 Cent is suing a Miami spa over claim his reputation suffered 'substantial damage' after his photo was used to promote penis enhancement surgery, lawsuit says
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- Rapper 50 Cent sued a spa owner for using his photo to promote penis enhancement.
- The lawsuit claimed 50 Cent "never" received penis enhancement surgery or any other surgery from the woman.
- The lawsuit asks for damages with the amount to be determined at a jury trial.
Rapper 50 Cent filed a lawsuit against a Miami spa claiming that the spa used a photo of him to promote its penis enhancement service, court documents show.
50 Cent, whose real name is Curtis Jackson III, filed the lawsuit in September. The complaint says that spa owner Angela Kogan took a photo with Jackson "under false pretenses" and then "subsequently used it to promote her business without Jackson's consent."
"Defendants also falsely implied in several online publications that Jackson was their plastic surgery client," the complaint continues. "Two years after the Photo was taken, Kogan used it again, this time—shockingly—to support the false insinuation that Defendants had provided a penile enhancement treatment to Mr. Jackson."
The use of Jackson's photo to promote the enhancement procedure caused Jackson to be "ridiculed" and caused "substantial damage to his professional and personal reputation," the lawsuit says.
The document says that Jackson "never" received "such a sexual enhancement procedure," any plastic surgery from Kogan, or gave permission to use his photo for commercial purposes.
The lawsuit points to an August 17 article posted on The Shade Room where Kogan gave an interview about the "rise in plastic surgery for men." The complaint says that Kogan's photo with Jackson appears juxtaposed with a photo of a man receiving penis enhancement surgery with a "euphemistic eggplant emoji" covering his groin as a thumbnail for the article.
The lawsuit included quotes from Instagram comments on Kogan's business Instagram to show that her use of his photo had "amplified" the "impression" that Jackson had undergone a penile enhancement procedure.
"Call him 50 inch," one comment read, according to the lawsuit.
The lawsuit asks that the defendants be barred from sharing the photo of Jackson and Kogan and from claiming that Jackson is Kogan's client. The lawsuit also asks for compensatory damages and punitive damages of an amount to be determined during a trial by jury.
Kogan and attorneys for Jackson did not immediately return Insider's request for comment on Saturday.