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50 Cent was shot nine times on the 24th of May 2000, outside his grandmother's former home in South Jamaica, Queens. The bullets struck his hand, arm, hip, both legs, chest, and left cheek. He spent 13 days in the hospital and used a walker for six weeks before fully recovering over five months.
According to Forbes, 50 Cent earned $100 million after taxes when Coca-Cola purchased Glaceau, the maker of VitaminWater, for $4.1 billion in 2007. Jackson had become a minority shareholder in October 2004 in exchange for serving as a spokesperson, and he helped create the grape-flavored Formula 50 variant.
50 Cent filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on the 13th of July 2015 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Connecticut, listing debts of $32,509,549.91. The primary causes were legal judgments exceeding $20 million in the prior year, including a $5 million award to Lastonia Leviston and a $17.2 million judgment in the Sleek headphones dispute.
In 2002, Eminem received 50 Cent's mixtape Guess Who's Back? through Jackson's attorney, who was working with Eminem's manager Paul Rosenberg. Impressed, Eminem invited Jackson to Los Angeles, introduced him to Dr. Dre, and signed him to Shady Records for $1 million.
Get Rich or Die Tryin' sold 872,000 copies in its first four days and debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. The lead single "In da Club" set a Billboard record as the most listened-to song in radio history within a single week. The album produced two number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100: "In da Club" and "21 Questions" featuring Nate Dogg.
50 Cent co-starred as Kanan Stark and served as executive producer on Power, a crime drama that debuted on Starz on the 7th of June 2014 and ran for six seasons until February 2020. He also executive-produced three spin-offs: Power Book II: Ghost, Power Book III: Raising Kanan, and Power Book IV: Force.