50 Cent files for bankruptcy - but spends £3,200 per month on gardening

The 40-year old, born Curtis Jackson III, has a healthy monthly income of $185,000 (£111,900), mainly from royalties and interest on his investments.

But the big drain on the rapper’s bank account is his suburban mansion in Connecticut, which costs $72,000 (£46,000) to maintain every month.

The rapper has been trying to sell the 50,000 square foot mansion since 2007 but has been unable to find a buyer.He filed for bankruptcy after a court in New York ordered him to pay $7 million (£4.5 million) to a woman who said he’d posted a sex tape of hers online without her permission. Lastonia Leviston’s invasion-of-privacy lawsuit argues that 50 Cent shared a crudely narrated 13-minute sex-tape she made with a boyfriend in 2008. Lastonia has a child with 50 Cent’s rival, Rick Ross.