50 Cent accused of using fear and humiliation against former financial assistant

ATLANTA (CN) — A former staffer and financial administrator for Curtis Jackson, better known as 50 Cent, has accused the rapper and actor of retaliating against her for refusing to do things she believed to be illegal.

Monique Mayers claims she was one of Jackson’s most loyal and trusted employees for 12 years, serving as the “operational backbone” of the New York native’s entertainment empire.

From October 2007 through March 2019, Mayers says she assisted in managing and coordinating Jackson’s tax strategy, property acquisitions, artist payments and bankruptcy communications, as well as the daily operations of his G-Unit entertainment company and beverage line, Sire Spirits. She says she was entrusted with Jackson’s confidential financial information and processed millions of dollars in transactions at his direction.

But in a complaint filed Thursday in a Georgia federal court, Mayers claims she was terminated and harassed after she refused Jackson’s demands for her to do illegal favors to protect his image and absorb his risks.

“Jackson ran his workplace the same way he built his public persona: through fear, humiliation, loyalty tests and punishment,” Mayers wrote. “Money bought power. Power demanded obedience. Anyone who refused became a target.”

Reena Jain, an attorney for Jackson, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

In a statement to XXL Magazine, Jain said Jackson denies the allegations. She said the claims are past the statute of limitations and characterized Mayers as a disgruntled former employee seeking money and media attention.

In January 2019, Mayers says she was directed to place property in her own name on behalf of Jackson’s driver and bodyguard, Bajar Walters, but refused.

At the time, Jackson remained subject to ongoing bankruptcy-related reporting obligations. He could not place new assets in his own name without disclosure and sought to conceal the transaction, according to Mayers.

A month later, Mayers says she rejected Jackson’s orders to file a false police report accusing Walters of stealing Jackson’s SUV and approximately $600,000 in cash. She claims this was part of his attempt to hide undisclosed cash from a state court.

Shortly thereafter, on March 27, 2019, Mayers says she was fired without cause and without severance.

According to Mayers, this was just the beginning of Jackson’s campaign of retaliation. She claims he managed to retract a Forbes feature about her career by falsely accusing her of embellishment and violating a nondisclosure agreement.

“The purpose was plain: kill a positive public profile, poison her name in the entertainment industry and make future employers afraid to hire her,” Mayers writes in her complaint.

She says the results were devastating. Despite years of senior operational experience, Mayers says she has been effectively blocked from obtaining prospective employment.

Additionally, she claims to have been subjected to more than 80 harassing and threatening calls and messages after Jackson gave out her private phone number.

The harassment escalated when Mayers became a witness in civil proceedings involving Jackson and his liquor company Sire Spirits in 2021. She claims that during a deposition, Jackson directed his attorney to question her about the unrelated, unsolved 2006 murder of Israel Ramirez at a Busta Rhymes video shoot in Brooklyn.

“Jackson did not have his attorney invoke the Ramirez cold case into the deposition to uncover any truth but to send a threat and terrorize Ms. Mayers into silence by reminding her that disclosing too much to state authorities or exposing secrets he wanted buried came with consequences,” Mayers wrote.

She says she received additional threats afterward, including a text message reading “you will suffer” and two voicemails in which a caller sang, “Bang bang, I shot you down.”

Mayer’s lawsuit is just one of several ongoing legal battles involving the 50-year-old 50 Cent.

Last month, he sought to seal filings from his former partner, Shaniqua Tompkins, who accused him of assaulting her to force her to sign away the rights to her life story. Jackson argues the allegations are “inflammatory and defamatory" and intended to hinder breach of contract claims that he brought against her.

In July 2025, Jackson sued Tompkins in an effort to stop her from publicly discussing their past relationship. He argues that recent online statements by Tompkins, in which she claims she was abused while pregnant with their son, violate a 2007 agreement granting Jackson’s publishing company exclusive control over her life story, name and likeness.

Jackson accused another ex-partner, Daphne Joy Narvaez, of defamation in 2024 after she made comments on social media also accusing him of abuse. He ultimately withdrew that suit.

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