50 Cent can seize his ex-employee's home after the former executive confessed to embezzlement.
A judge has granted the rapper permission to claim his former executive's property as partial payment towards a multi-million-dollar debt.
50 Cent, whose real name is Curtis Jackson III, began pursuing Mitchell Green for monies owed four years ago, after the onetime employee of his Sire Spirits company admitted to having embezzled millions.
Green had created a scheme under which he raised prices of the company's cognac and champagne products and received "kickbacks" from wholesalers that were recorded for accounting purposes as "agency fees".
He then began embezzling funds directly from the business after an unnamed identity attempted to blackmail him over the scheme.
In November 2022, Green was ordered to pay Sire Spirits approximately $6.3 million (£4.7 million) in restitution and legal costs, however by March 2023 he had filed for bankruptcy - and a judge then declared his Connecticut home, worth roughly $1 million (£740,000), to be under an automatic stay until bankruptcy proceedings were finalised.
However, 50 Cent's legal team recently argued the property should be excluded from any stay order as its value was significantly less than the debt owed to Sire Spirits, and the judge agreed.
With accrued interest, the amount owed totals around $7 million (£5.1 million).
