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Billy Garland got $1 million from 2Pac's estate. Two official documents had listed him as dead.

Tupac died with no will and no children. Everything went to his mother, Afeni.

Document 1: the birth certificate. Father: deceased.
Document 2: the death certificate. Father: deceased.
Billy's word for it: "fraudulent perjury."

All that time, he'd been visiting Pac in Dannemora. "The minute he dies, I am no longer the father."

So he sued. "If nothing else, it showed I was alive."

Afeni's side demanded a DNA test. Pac had been cremated. The result still came back: 99.99%.

The judge gave him $0 anyway.

A California law passed just 1 year earlier: being the parent wasn't enough. You had to prove you supported the child.

Billy was away. Pac's family kept moving between Baltimore and Oakland. He couldn't prove it.

He appealed. Then the estate settled.

Today he says: "I feel bad now because it's a lot of money involved."

99.99% his father by DNA. $0 by law. $1 million by settlement.
Afeni called him a "sperm donor." Watch his answer, then tell me: justice or payoff?

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@exotomicc imagine having to sue just to prove you exist, no wonder he said that was the real win

[Lepsius @xLepsius]

Billy Garland got $1 million from 2Pac's estate. Two official documents had listed him as dead.

Tupac died with no will and no children. Everything went to his mother, Afeni.

Document 1: the birth certificate. Father: deceased.
Document 2: the death certificate. Father: deceased.
Billy's word for it: "fraudulent perjury."

All that time, he'd been visiting Pac in Dannemora. "The minute he dies, I am no longer the father."

So he sued. "If nothing else, it showed I was alive."

Afeni's side demanded a DNA test. Pac had been cremated. The result still came back: 99.99%.

The judge gave him $0 anyway.

A California law passed just 1 year earlier: being the parent wasn't enough. You had to prove you supported the child.

Billy was away. Pac's family kept moving between Baltimore and Oakland. He couldn't prove it.

He appealed. Then the estate settled.

Today he says: "I feel bad now because it's a lot of money involved."

99.99% his father by DNA. $0 by law. $1 million by settlement.
Afeni called him a "sperm donor." Watch his answer, then tell me: justice or payoff?

[Jace @JaceClipz]

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@fomoliver $50 million for moving from New York to LA has to be the most expensive relocation package in history

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@theosterlingx $50 million for moving from New York to LA has to be the most expensive relocation package in history

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@xbtnoah "not after today" is such a clean line, once you tell the world yourself the blackmailers have nothing left to sell

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@Aspect0F keep the rights every time, $290M in profit from Madea alone says the car was the cheaper option long term

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@DemonJin86848 imagine making one of the most iconic Aussie films ever and then the country literally won't let you leave

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@monvyrn honestly the IRS won, it always does, everyone else just fought over the crumbs

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@sidequesttzxc $3 million in legal fees and the thing that actually decided it was one voicemail, says a lot about how custody fights really work

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@Aspect0F 20 months of silence in exchange for True Detective and an Oscar sounds like the best trade he ever made

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@quazinov the money sandwich was basically a gift to every creditor's lawyer in that courtroom

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50 Cent declared bankruptcy and said he was out of money. Then he posted himself eating a sandwich made of money. On Conan, he explained it with one number: over $3–4 million.

Conan O'Brien put the photos on screen, one after another.

Money in the fridge. A coffee table made of money. "Broke," spelled in cash. Cash coming out of his pants.

The judge in his case was irritated.

Conan's question was simple: why?

50 started with a law lesson: "My audience doesn't understand the difference between Chapter 11 and Chapter 7."

Chapter 11, in his words: "You're reorganizing your business."

Then the number.

"I have four companies that have over, like, three or four million dollars in each one of them."

4 companies × over $3–4M each = $12M+.

"So I can pull the money out and take those pictures."

So who is the bankruptcy for? The court's job, he says, is to make sure people holding "awards from different arbitrators" get paid.

His take on fame: once you're successful, "you become a target, a bullseye." Lawyers sue counting on getting something from you.

Conan pushed: if that's the situation, why put all that on?

"No, no, no, no. Well, that's over with now, Coney."

Conan's verdict: an hour at 50's house, and he'd walk out with $30,000.

Bankrupt on paper, $12M+ across four companies on camera. If a judge were watching your case, would you have posted the money sandwich?

[Jace @JaceClipz]

https://t.co/gIUd6VYPDv

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@Aspect0F the four no's before it did all the heavy lifting honestly

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@hdfogel his own psychiatrist suing him over $29k is the most brutal detail here, even your therapist wants their cut

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@exotomicc a house for his brother turned into a pile of throwback jerseys, that's the most relatable money story ever

[Lepsius @xLepsius]

50 Cent declared bankruptcy and said he was out of money. Then he posted himself eating a sandwich made of money. On Conan, he explained it with one number: over $3–4 million.

Conan O'Brien put the photos on screen, one after another.

Money in the fridge. A coffee table made of money. "Broke," spelled in cash. Cash coming out of his pants.

The judge in his case was irritated.

Conan's question was simple: why?

50 started with a law lesson: "My audience doesn't understand the difference between Chapter 11 and Chapter 7."

Chapter 11, in his words: "You're reorganizing your business."

Then the number.

"I have four companies that have over, like, three or four million dollars in each one of them."

4 companies × over $3–4M each = $12M+.

"So I can pull the money out and take those pictures."

So who is the bankruptcy for? The court's job, he says, is to make sure people holding "awards from different arbitrators" get paid.

His take on fame: once you're successful, "you become a target, a bullseye." Lawyers sue counting on getting something from you.

Conan pushed: if that's the situation, why put all that on?

"No, no, no, no. Well, that's over with now, Coney."

Conan's verdict: an hour at 50's house, and he'd walk out with $30,000.

Bankrupt on paper, $12M+ across four companies on camera. If a judge were watching your case, would you have posted the money sandwich?

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@0xdimix casinos love math until the math works against them

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@limalemonnn giving his wife the exact amount he lost and saying "I wasted it" is the most honest part of this whole story