50 Cent

Rapper 50 Cent has settled his legal war over costly repairs done to his Connecticut mansion – formerly owned by Mike Tyson – and no one got shot?!

It’s the end of an era.

Teen fans will have to find a new place to shriek, weep and squeal.

MTV’s TRL aired its final show on Sunday and they went out with a star studded bang. “Total Finale Live,” taped as all the shows had at MTV Studios in Times Square featured 50 Cent, Justin Timberlake and Beyoncé Knowles.

Justin Timberlake told Carson Daly, whose glory days (including an engagement to Tara Reid) were when he was hosting the show, “This is like a big high school reunion in a way,” JT said. “We kind of all grew up together.”

What are we thinking of JT’s beard?

It’s a little lumberjack with a splash of the Amish, no?

Of course, making baby daddy Justin Timberlake look bad is nearly impossible, but this mound of facial hair is a step in the ugly direction. If he trimmed that bad boy down about an inch and we’d love it but he looks like he’s on his way to something of Lincoln proportions and that is no bueno.

Last month we told you that rapper 50 Cent was incensed by a Taco Bell publicity stunt inviting him to change his name to 79, 89 or 99 Cent for a day to help promote their “Why Pay More?” menu, a marketing campaign we thought was so hilarious, we’re giggling as we write this.

OK! Magazine is reporting that 50 Cent is going to war with Taco Bell.

Taco Bell offered to donate $10,000 to charity if Fiddy would change his name to 79, 89 or 99 Cent for one day. He would also have been required to go to a Taco Bell drive thru and rap his order (like they do in the insipid new commercials) using his new handle. All of this would tie-in to their new "Why Pay More" Menu priced at 79-99 cent.

Fiddy didn’t find it funny. At all.

Baby Mama Drama! 

Shaniqua Tompkins, 50 Cent’s ex-girlfriend and baby mama, is claiming that Fiddy tried to have her killed by setting his Long Island home ablaze early this morning. The house, owned by 50, was at the center of a multi-million dollar lawsuit earlier this year between Tompkins and the rapper, after Tompkins sued for ownership of the house, claiming 50 (real name Curtis Jackson) had promised it to her more than 10 years ago.

She claims Fiddy is obsessed with her, threatened her and said that if he couldn’t have her, no one could.

Early this morning a fire tore through a Long Island, New York, home owned by rapper 50 Cent. The fire destroyed the house where 50 Cent's ex-girlfriend and son currently live. According to TMZ, the structure was gutted after a "raging inferno" engulfed the property. Six people inside the $1.4 million house, in Dix Hills, Long Island, were rushed to the hospital following the blaze.

Fire officials said they are investigating the fire as “suspicious.”