DMX Ordered To Pay Up In Baby Momma Defamation Lawsuit 
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

Earl Simmons, aka rapper DMX, was ordered on Friday to pay $1.5 million in damages to Monique Wayne, a woman from Maryland who sued DMX for defamation, false statements, and unreasonable publicity of her private life.  This is the woman whom DMX told Sister 2 Sister mag had "raped" him while he was sleeping, after he met her at a Washington, D.C. nightclub.  Hence the defamation suit.

Monique gave birth to DMX's child in 2004 (she won both the paternity suit and child support).  She testified that DMX said he cried rape to make good with his wife.

He told the mag, "She raped me...That might sound like some bullsh*t...is that the only thing in the world that's not possible?  Because when I sleep, my **** be out...DNA says it is [mine].  I don't know...If I did, I would remember.  It ain't like she's a pretty girl."

DMX did not show up at his court date on Friday, and has no lawyer listed in his defense.  Murray Richman, his longtime attorney, claims he heard of the suit through the tabloids and has no record of DMX being served with papers.

The judge awarded Monique $518,400 in compensatory damages and $1 in punitive damages.

An inside source told ConnieTalk.com exclusively that American Express Travel is also after DMX and Tashera Simmons in Arizona for an undisclosed amount that was never paid for.  Our source says that DMX and wife Tashera were also due in court this month over the lawsuit, but didn't show, resulting in the plaintiff's attorney filing for default judgment.

No charges have been filed yet in the August raid of DMX's home which turned up dead pit bulls, guns, and drugs.

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