DMX Forced To Pay 1.5million Dollars In Damages

Never one to stay out of the headlines, troubled rapper DMX has been forced to stump up a massive $1.5million for defaming the mother of his child after he claimed she raped him.

The rapper missed the court hearing on Friday (January 11), but was ordered by Prince George's County Circuit Court Judge Thomas Smith to pay the substantial damages in his absence.

The case stems from an interview DMX – real name Earl Simmons - carried out with Sister 2 Sister magazine, where he claimed that Monique Wayne sexually assaulted him in 2003 which led to her falling pregnant.

Wayne denied the allegations and sued him, resulting in the case. She gave in testimony in court alongside her sister and a psychiatrist.

Her lawyer Stephanie Moran said that the decision was reached for DMX to pay $518,000 in compensation and $1million in punitive damages.

Wayne told US publication The Post: "It's not so much the price, it's the point I wanted to get across. Let him think about what he's going to say before he says it."