Rap star 50 Cent's lawyers questioned an architecture expert in the celebrity's case against the Bloomfield engineering
firm BVH Integrated Services Inc. Lawyers for 50 Cent, whose
real name is Curtis Jackson, said the estimate BVH gave him before he bought his Farmington
mansion is 2003 was more than $2 million off the mark. Jackson
said he paid the company $14,000 to conduct an inspection and give an
estimate on the cost of work needed at the home, which he bought for
$4.1 million from Mike Tyson. WFSB.com reports:
In court Thursday, Jackson's attorney, Michael Feldman, asked his expert witness, architect James Cicalo, if it was important for Jackson to get accurate figures before buying the home. "Any purchaser wants to know what to expect," said Cicalo, of FSI Architects. During several hours on the witness stand, Cicalo told Hartford Superior Court Judge Eliot Prescott that he believes BVH was off on many of its estimates, perhaps by as much as $2 million.
