Woman awarded $7M in 50 Cent sex tape lawsuit now challenges bankrupt rapper's 'excessive' lawyer fees

  • Lastonia Leviston was awarded $7 million in July after winning a lawsuit against 50 Cent, who released a sex tape she made with her boyfriend
  • Her payment is now tied up in his bankruptcy case
  • She is challenging the 'expenses' his lawyers are seeking for the lawsuit
  • Of the $123,455 they are after, $57,241 is for luxury hotels
  • Leviston claims the expenses are excessive and should be disallowed   
By OKWU for PROUDSTARS
The woman who won $7 million in a sex tape lawsuit against 50 Cent is now challenging the 'excessive' fees his lawyers charged for the trial as part of his bankruptcy case, as she tries to get a hold of the money she was awarded.
Lastonia Leviston was awarded $7 million in July after the rapper acquired a video she made with her boyfriend, added himself as a crude commentator and posted the humiliating end result online without her permission.
However, as her settlement is now tied up in the 40-year-old's bankruptcy case, Leviston is questioning what appears to be exorbitant 'expenses' that the lawyers for the 21 Questions hitmaker are seeking for representing him - to the tune of $123,455.92, The New York Daily News reported.
As part of that figure, the lawyers - from Brewer Attorneys in Dallas - say that $57,241.76 was spent on hotels in Manhattan during the course of the trial earlier this year.

Lastonia Leviston (right) was awarded $7 million after the rapper acquired a video she made with her boyfriend, added himself as a crude commentator and posted the result online without permission 
Leviston asked the court to reject the requests for being 'extravagant, excessive and unreasonable', claiming the lawyers were unnecessarily staying at $1000-a-night places.
'Ms. Leviston's attorneys stayed in a New York City hotel for the same trial as the Brewer Firm's attorneys and expended $249 to $450 per night per room,' her filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Hartford states, according to The Daily News. 
Making up the rest of the expenses, which are also being challenged, is $26,890.90 spent on court reporter fees, $14,800.66 spent on legal research and $4,186.94 dropped on travel expenses.
Leviston says her own legal team spent less than $3,000 on her case - and won.