50 cent

CENTRAL ISLIP, New York (AP):

Rapper 50 Cent already doles out US$25,000 (€18,600) a month in child support and household expenses to the mother of his 10-year-old son, Marquise Jackson.

But, the boy's mother, Shaniqua Tompkins, says that is not enough. The rapper, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, is "worth tens and tens of millions of dollars," said her attorney Raoul Felder.

The two are wrangling over the issue in a Long Island family court, east of New York City, where the rapper arrived on Friday in an armored sport utility vehicle with a satellite dish.

$33m in the last year

50 Cent famously vowed to Get Rich or Die Tryin' on a 2003 album, and he no longer needs to worry about the latte With his G-Unit record label, clothing line, ringtones and other enterprises, 50 Cent reeled in an estimated US$33 million in the last year, according to Forbes. He has sold more than 11 million albums and has a new album, Curtis, due out in September.

The rapper's lawyer, Brett Kimmel, called Tompkins "insatiable".

"Her demands keep escalating," he told the Daily News on Friday.

Closed-door hearings on the child-support case are scheduled to continue next week.