50 Cent’s legal team is pulling out one of the wildest receipts in hip-hop history—a 1 a.m. call from someone claiming to be Ja Rule—to defend against a harassment lawsuit filed by Monique Mayers, his longtime former executive assistant. It’s the kind of defense that could only happen in a courtroom where two of rap’s oldest enemies have such bad blood that even a wrong number becomes evidence.
Mayers says that starting in 2015, she refused to help 50 hide assets during his bankruptcy by putting property in her own name, and later refused to file a false police report accusing his driver and bodyguard of stealing $600,000 in cash. When she refused both requests, Mayers claims 50 Cent fired her in 2019 and got Forbes to pull a feature story about her career. Now, two years after her termination and more than seven years after her firing, she went public with claims against 50 Cent in April 2026.
Here’s where the Ja Rule angle comes in. A caller claiming to be Ja Rule dialed Mayers at 1:00 in the morning, looking for 50 instead of her. Another caller, Victor Sena, texted Mayers in 2023, saying he’d gotten her number from 50 Cent for concert tickets. He even called her by 50 Cent’s nickname, proof he thought he’d reached the rapper himself. 50’s lawyers argue this proves the opposite of what Mayers claims: that people had her number because she was his assistant for 12 years, and they were simply trying to reach him at an old contact. 50 says she never alleges he personally made a single call, sent a text, left a voicemail or instructed anyone else to threaten or harass her.
Mayers worked as 50’s assistant from 2007 until 2019 and sued in April, accusing him of intentional infliction of emotional distress and invasion of privacy. She claims she was fired after refusing requests that allegedly involved illegal conduct and later received more than 80 harassing or threatening calls and messages. But 50’s defense goes harder. His legal team argues Georgia’s court lacks jurisdiction because 50 is a Texas resident, that Georgia’s long-arm statute requires the alleged conduct occur within the state, and that most of Mayers’s claims fall outside Georgia’s two-year statute of limitations. Mayers waited more than seven years after her employment ended before filing suit in April 2026.
Now, let’s zoom out on the actual history here. Ramirez was Busta Rhymes’s bodyguard, shot dead outside a Brooklyn video shoot where 50 Cent and other G-Unit members were present. And 50’s deposition strategy? 50 Cent’s team defends a deposition question Mayers called “grotesquely outrageous,” about the unsolved 2006 murder of Israel Ramirez. 50’s attorneys argue the question is “protected legal conduct” and doesn’t constitute “extreme or outrageous behavior” under Georgia law. That’s the kind of hardball that got Mayers to drop the lawsuit language about witness intimidation and emotional distress in the first place.
50 Cent’s filing goes further, asking the court to order Mayers to pay his attorney’s fees, calling her case frivolous and vexatious. Judge Victoria Calvert, who’s overseeing the case, hasn’t ruled on the motion yet. What’s clear is that 50 Cent, the man who has beefed with Ja Rule since 1999, now has a courtroom strategy that hinges on proving Ja Rule couldn’t reach him either. You can’t write this stuff.
What’s at stake is bigger than a wrong-number call. Mayers served 12 years as a senior executive at 50’s G-Unit and other companies, and claims she was fired in 2019 because she would not take part in illegal activity, including bankruptcy fraud and lying to the police to frame his former bodyguard for serious crimes. After her termination, Mayers says the rapper “unleashed a years-long intimidation campaign,” including more than 80 harassing and threatening calls and messages: “The message was unmistakable: Protect Jackson’s secrets or .. suffer the consequences,” the complaint reads. 50’s team fires back: when the alleged threats against Mayers came to light, the star’s lawyers not only encouraged her to go to law enforcement, but also reported them themselves to “ensure they were thoroughly investigated.”
The 16BARS take: Using a Ja Rule wrong-number call to defend against a harassment lawsuit is peak 50 Cent—turning one of hip-hop’s most legendary beefs into a legal strategy. But the real story isn’t funny: it’s about what happens when someone inside an empire refuses to commit fraud and the consequences never stop.
