50 Cent’s Houses: Exploring the Rapper’s Over-the-Top Real Estate Portfolio
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Despite one particularly notable exception, 50 Cent’s houses mostly exist outside of the spotlight. The rapper turned media mogul, also known by his full name, Curtis Jackson III, keeps a pretty low profile when it comes to his current properties. Back in 2007, however, the musician invited MTV Cribs into his colossal 52-room Connecticut estate for a lengthy tour to show off a laundry list of over-the-top amenities, from a waterfall grotto to a nightclub in the basement. Though it was known for its excess, the property became even more infamous for how difficult it was for the “In da Club” singer to sell.
Read on for the details on the ostentatious abode, plus a rundown on the other known properties that 50 Cent has owned.
Connecticut compound
Around the time his debut studio album, Get Rich or Die Tryin’, was released in 2003, 50 Cent paid $4.1 million for Mike Tyson’s 52-room mansion in Farmington, Connecticut. He then invested a reported $6 million in flashy customizations to the sprawling Colonial-style abode, including installing a nightclub dubbed TKO, which had a strip club, murals of 50’s likeness, and a full bar.
Spanning roughly 52,000 square feet and resting on 17 acres, the residence was spacious enough to host his friends, who stayed in a wing that he called the “homeboy complex.” In total, the dwelling boasted 19 bedrooms and 25 bathrooms. The pad, which the rapper described on Cribs as an “East Coast Playboy mansion,” also had a hot tub capable of accommodating 40 people, a green-screen room, numerous game rooms (one of which had a custom Gucci pool table), an indoor basketball court, a full gym, an indoor pool, a home theater equipped with leather recliners, a conference room, and the recording studio where 50 recorded his third studio album, Curtis. The residence’s outdoor areas featured a massive swimming pool, another basketball court, a helicopter pad, a spacious koi pond, and a guesthouse.
The NYC native grew tired of the oversized scale of the house and the effort it took to keep it in working order, according to a Late Show with Stephen Colbert interview from January 2019. “I don’t want a big house no more,” the rapper told Colbert. “You know when you look down the hallway in your house and you don’t wanna go down there?,” he joked, before adding that things would break “because you didn’t turn it on, and now the light is flickering.”
The “Candy Shop” rapper first tried to sell the house in 2007 with an $18.5 million asking price, but it languished on the market for over a decade—even appearing on Million Dollar Listing—before finding a buyer interested in the highly customized abode. 50 Cent filed for bankruptcy in 2015, when it was revealed that it cost him $70,000 a month to upkeep the property. After an attempted burglary on the premises in 2017, the Den of Thieves actor joked in a now deleted social media post, “What my house got robbed, I thought I sold that MF. LOL.”
It wasn’t until spring 2019 when it finally sold for $2.9 million—12 years later and 84% less than the home’s original listing. The Power producer reportedly planned to donate the cash from the sale to his nonprofit, G-Unit Foundation Inc. At the time of its sale, 50 Cent was reportedly living in an apartment in Midtown Manhattan, though details of that property are scarce. It may or may not have had a Versace toilet, per a 2015 interview with the New York Post.
“I just don’t need the same things [anymore],” 50 Cent said in an interview with Haute Living in 2024. “I do things differently. Now, I know myself more. I know what I require, and I definitely don’t require 55,000 square feet. If I had 13 kids, maybe, they would fit comfortably in 18 rooms. Other than that, it’s just me. I really need three rooms total. A bedroom, an office, a guest bedroom.”
Long Island dwelling
In 2007, 50 Cent paid a reported $2.4 million for a mansion in the Long Island hamlet of Dix Hills. The dwelling was a 5,200-square-foot Colonial with six bedrooms and five bathrooms, according to Newsday. It’s unclear if he ever actually resided at the home, but his ex-girlfriend, Shaniqua Tompkins, and their then-10-year-old son, Marquise, lived there when the residence was at the center of a dispute between the couple in 2008. In the midst of the legal battle, the house burned down in a fire that officials deemed “suspicious.” Since then, the former couple have continued to have a contentious relationship, and 50 Cent reportedly offloaded the vacant property for $365,000 in 2010.
Houston home
Though no details have been released about his residence, 50 Cent announced in May 2021 that he had moved to Texas. “I Love NY, but I live in Houston now,” he posted. The Lone Star state was confirmed as the rapper’s primary residence by his lawyer the next month, when a New Jersey apartment rented by “one of [his] corporate entities” was burglarized. It’s unclear if he maintains a home in Houston.
Black-and-white abode
50 offered a peek into his latest mansion for Us Weekly’s August 2024 cover story. Featuring an exclusively black-and-white color scheme, the pad boasts marble floors, samurai statues, crystal chandeliers, and larger-than-life art appointed by the media mogul. “I put this together myself,” he told the outlet. “I didn’t use an interior decorator.” 50 Cent also shared glimpses of a trophy-lined office and a formal dining area with a nearby wine cellar. Per Us, the pad also has a spa complete with a sauna, cold plunge, and indoor lap pool.
Though the rapper hasn’t disclosed the location of the boldly decorated dwelling, a New Jersey–based contractor van was parked outside during a tour of the space that 50 Cent shared on Instagram live.
Business investments in Louisiana
Though it’s unknown if he owns a home nearby, 50 Cent has most recently invested in real estate for his business ventures in downtown Shreveport, Louisiana, where the businessman has built a studio for his production company, G-Unit Studios. “The studio itself, it’s for me to create content, to go make television shows and films and stuff like that,” he said in July 2024. “But Shreveport, I have to be able to create an experience for people to come, so I started investing in the downtown area, buying properties and stuff. I got to revitalize that along with the studio.”
Originally Appeared on Architectural Digest
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