50 Cent Suggests Diddy Hire ASAP Rocky's Lawyer: ’There’s No Time to Prepare’
Rocky's attorney, Joe Tacopina, famously won the rapper's shooting trial in February.
50 Cent knows how Diddy can win his sex trafficking trial.
Fif took to Instagram, posting a photo of ASAP Rocky’s lawyer, Joe Tacopina, and writing, “If Diddy can get Joe he might beat this case but he gonna have to pay a lot of money, there’s no time to prepare!”
Alongside Tacopina’s photo was a Hollywood Reporter headline, “Courtroom magician Joe Tacopina Saved ASAP Rocky’s Life—Now Diddy’s Knocking on His Door.”
In the Reporter article, Tacopina claimed that Diddy has been trying to bring him onto his legal team before his trial begins in May. Tacopina told the outlet that he was “going to speak” to Diddy. “I’m not saying yes or no. I’m just going to listen.”
In February, Tacopina told The Breakfast Club that he declined to be involved in Diddy’s case due to the attorney’s ties with Jay-Z and Roc Nation.
"I represent Roc Nation; a lot of people in Roc I'm very close with," Tacopina explained at the 47:16 mark of the video above. "Jay and [Roc Nation president] Desiree Perez, who's the most amazing, like—bomb of a boss. Jay is amazing. You know, Jay Brown, all those people are just, like, they really are special, special people. That's sort of family to me and I don't think they see eye-to-eye with P. Diddy."
Tacopina recently found notoriety after winning Rocky’s shooting trial. Following the W, Rihanna and Rocky joked that they would name their third child after the lawyer.
"Rihanna and Rocky said to me in the courtroom yesterday, they grabbed me and they said, 'Listen, our next baby is ASAP Joe,'" Tacopina told Extra.
Diddy was recently hit with two more criminal charges ahead of his New York trial next month. He's now facing an additional charge of sex trafficking and an additional charge of transportation to engage in prostitution.
In total, he's been charged with two counts of sex trafficking, two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution, and one count of racketeering. His trial is set to begin on May 5.
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