Really, you can only be accused of setting your own $2.4 million dollar house on fire when your son is inside so many times before you take some sort of action, which is why 50 Cent has slapped the now-homeless, very upset mother of his son, Marquise, with a $20 million defamation suit.

On Shaniqua Tompkin's side, she was granted an order of protection from 50 Cent last Friday and did not let the impending lawsuit against her stop her from making accusations. "He always threatened me," she said. "If someone threatens you on Monday and you jump out of a second floor window on Friday, that's the facts, you decide." The fire department has ruled the fire that destroyed the house that 50 Cent owned and Tompkins lived in "suspicious," which is sort of an understatement. [People]

The mother of 50 Cent's 10-year-old boy, Marquise, is now suing the rapper for trying to get a judge to evict her (and their son and her new boyfriend) from their $2.5 million Long Island house. She claims that he said he would buy it for her and her family, and instead put it in his name. A "source close to 50 Cent" told People : "[Shaniqua] and her extended family – her son and her new lover – are living in the Long Island house which 50 is also paying for. So he's paying double for housing. She's supposed to be finding separate housing for her new family, and she hasn’t, and that’s why [they’re] in the situation [they're] in.” I'm just saying though, $2.5 million is sort of the regular-person equivalent of 50 cents to 50 Cent. It looks like they're no longer so fond of each other after the child-support-trial-gone-wrong. He obviously still cares for his son, though. No one buys chinchilla and mink jackets for 10-year-olds if they don't care about them.

50 Cent's Glaceau Vitamin Water deal may not have resulted in a $400 million pay day (those in the know estimate he's getting about $100 million), but at least one associate of his is seeing dollar signs. And, as hard as it is to believe, I'm actually not talking about Tony Yayo. I'm talking about Shaniqua Tompkins, the father of 50's son.

Tompkins wants some of 50's share for their 10-year-old son, Marquise Jackson. Her lawyer, Raoul Felder, told us, "This will be a subject of the trial." A lawyer for the rapper says, "The extent of his worth is irrelevant. He always has and always will support his son."

The extent of his worth is irrelevant. Right. This is still America, right? 50 Cent is still a rapper who brags about his net worth whenever possible, right? Ok, just checking.

[NYP]