New York rapper 50 Cent found himself in the midst of a bizarre lawsuit when he alleged that plastic surgeon Angela Kogan and her company Perfection Plastic Surgery, used his image to promote the brand.
This past September the rapper filed a lawsuit, which claimed Kogan used a photo that he believed she took as a fan, to promote Perfection Plastic Surgery.
The image he claims also wrongly implies that underwent a penis enlargement procedure, with the rapper claiming it opened him to ridicule.
Fiddy has also alleged that the image has damaged his professional reputation and has affected his personal relationships.
Kogan, for her part, insists that the image never implied 50 Cent had a penile enhancement, also believing that the rapper knew the image would be shared on social media.
“It is clear from the photo itself that the taking thereof was not a random happenstance or unsolicited occasion. The content of the photo shows [50 Cent] in [Kogan’s’] office, next to [Kogan] in her role as a businesswoman/aesthetician (i.e. in professional attire),” her lawyers wrote in a filing.
“Thus, it is disingenuous.. to claim or allege that [50 Cent] – who wishes for the court to believe randomly stumbled into a medspa without purpose or specific intent – agreed to take the photo under the ‘sole impression that [Kogan] was a fan seeking the photograph for her private and personal enjoyment.
“Neither the photo itself, nor the caption thereof, purports to show the use of the photo in direct promotion with any commercial product or service (i.e. offered medspa treatments, products, endorsement of plastic surgery services, endorsement of penile enhancement services, etc.”
