Celebrity Mound

The price of the Connecticut mega-mansion owned by rapper 50 Cent has dropped again – to $10.9 million.

The 50,000-square-foot mansion is in the Hartford metropolitan area suburb Farmington. It was owned by boxer Mike Tyson.

It has 19 bedrooms and 37 bathrooms. It boasts a gym, billiards rooms, racquetball courts and a disco with stripper poles.

The New York City rapper bought it for $4.1 million. He said it had “a ‘Miami Vice’ feel” and spent $6 million on renovations and repairs.

The home was for sale for nearly two years before being pulled off the market in May. The initial $18.5 million price dropped to $14.5 million late last year.

50 Cent says he’s tired of the two-hour commute to New York City and wants to downsize.

Rapper 50 Cent testified in court Tuesday that he never would have bought Mike Tyson’s mansion if he knew it would cost a pretty penny to fix up.

The star is suing BVH Integrated Services, the engineering firm he hired to inspect the Farmington, Conn., spread when he was buying it from the boxer’s ex-wife in 2003.

The company estimated it would cost about $500,000 to repair roofs, decks, driveways and renovate other parts of the property.

50 Cent, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, said he ended up spending about $6 million on the job. He says BVH should cough up about $3 million.

“I would not have purchased the property with $1 million worth of work to do. To be honest I would not have purchased a house with $700,000 worth of damages,” he testified.

“I would have felt I was living in a construction site,” said the hip-hop hit machine, who was wearing a dark pinstriped suit and no tie.

BVH attorney Michael Byrne said it didn’t overbill and that 50 Cent wanted “extravagant and costly upgrades.”

The 19-bedroom property – which was featured on MTV’s “Cribs” – includes a recording studio and a nightclub that features a swing dangling from the ceiling.

When the 48,000-square-foot property was up for sale in 2007, brokers said the rapper had added a helicopter pad, an infinity pool and spa with a grotto, a movie theater, and other extras.

No one bought it, and it’s no longer for sale.

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The video has been published trough a dedicated website called BooBooTV and features Fifty as Pimpin Curly narrating and commenting the scenes.

“Yo, check this shit out man. I’ma show you my b**** man. Here go your baby mama Ricky. Double R ? Does that stand for Rick Ross in the middle of her muthaf***in chest man. Oh this is cold blooded man,” he adds. “I told niggas I was the beast from the east man. They thought I was b***s*****n. I ain’t b***s*****n no mo man. 1 minute and 30 seconds nigga. You see the tape. It only been on for 1 minute and 30 seconds.”

“I want you to watch this on your tour bus Ricky. I want you to watch this on your m*****f****n tour bus Ricky…Now how the f**k you gonna say you a boss and you run a m****f****n crew and can’t even control your b*****s. Is this nigga lickin on the Rick Ross tattoo ? The n***a lickin on the Ricky tattoo. Oooh shit. Oooh man. Somebody need to make an announcement.”

When asked about the tape, Rick Ross remains unimpressed by 50’s moves : “Wow, that’s big, I like that,” Ross said in an interview with Big Tigger. “At least he ain’t holding dildos with wigs on. At least he looking at girls. That’s what my whole thing is and that’s why we call him Curly. He’s not straight. We appreciate all the attention.”

Rick Ross’ Deeper Than Rap is slated to arrive in stores on April 21, while 50 Cent’s Before I Self Destruct will be released sometime this year.
You can see the whole video at BooBoo.

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It’s no secret that 50 Cent has an amazing body … and at Sundance, he seemed particularly keen to prove it.

The brawny hip-hopper invited a handful of pals, including actors Tom Arnold and Mekhi Phifer plus Gatecrasher’s Sean Evans — to join him on a 20-minute cardio session led by Fitty’s trainer, Jay Cardiello.

“It’s intense, and there are no weights involved. And some of it’s like girly stuff, like just kicking your leg, but it’s muscles you don’t really ever work at,” 50 said during the sweat session at Sundance’s Vitamin Water House. “Men don’t usually go to the gym and say, ‘I’m going to develop my ass. This’ll be the J.Lo workout.’

“I’ve been doing [the routine] for a while. I did that this morning before you got here. And I weight-trained.”

“So that was your second workout of the day?” inquired the now desperately tired Evans, struggling to feel his legs.

“Yep. And it’s not even noon,” 50 laughed.

After the workout, 50 and producing partner Randall Emmett hosted a private screening of “The Life and Death of Jam Master Jay,” one of the first movies under their new film company, Cheetah Films. As Seth Green, Russell Simmons and Chris Masterson filed into the house’s private screening room, 50 revealed why Jay was so important to him.

“Jay was a mentor. He’s the first person I went into the studio with the intention of producing a song for an album, which was never released because Jay’s touring schedule was so hectic he wasn’t able to focus on it.”

The rapper added: “After Jay, I went to Columbia Records, but that didn’t work … Columbia Records was too scared to even talk to me.

“So I learned to market myself, like Jay had done. A lot of the major labels and companies were ignoring me because they were only looking at my street life. It makes me rub it in now. Right in their faces. I want to go into their offices and say, ‘I remember you. Didn’t they fire you yet?’”

G-Unit founder 50 told how he enjoyed his time at Sundance. “I like the parties, because it’s something to do different than sitting in the theater seats. After watching five or six movies, people start to feel a little drained.

“I’ve seen a few movies, but I got to the premiere, they start announcing all the people who are there, and I’m like ‘What the hell? I’m 50 Cent! I’m here! Tell everyone I’m here,’ ” he joked.

At that point, Gatecrasher’s man wanted to clap for 50, but, still suffering post-workout trauma, couldn’t lift his arms.

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