{"id":178139,"date":"2026-03-28T11:31:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T11:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/178139\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T11:31:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T11:31:34","slug":"news-12-the-bronx-551","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/178139\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | The Bronx"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former employee of Fat Joe has dropped sexual abuse claims previously included in his $20 million lawsuit against the Bronx-born rapper.<\/p>\n<p>Ex-hype man Terrance Dixon initially alleged that Joe forced him to engage in thousands of <a href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/lawsuit-alleges-fat-joe-forced-ex-hype-man-to-engage-in-thousands-of-sex-acts-with-women\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sex acts with women<\/a>, some of which were underage.<\/p>\n<p>Fat Joe\u2019s attorney accuses Dixon and his lawyer of altering the lawsuit to center around wages and royalties. They say this is a major change from the original complaint.<\/p>\n<p>Fat Joe\u2019s legal team also filed a lawsuit against Dixon in 2025 accusing him of using the legal system as an extortion scheme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former employee of Fat Joe has dropped sexual abuse claims previously included in his $20 million lawsuit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,72034,3100,9,24,63,72035,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-178139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-fat-joe","tag-lawsuit","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-rapper-lawsuit","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}