Fat Joe has said he was once robbed of millions of dollars by his best friend.
Speaking to Rashad Bilal and Troy Millings of Earn Your Leisure at UnitedMasters’ Earn Your Masters event at Art Basel in Miami, Joe opened up about allegedly being taken advantage of by a man he’d been close with for over two decades.
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“I got my heart broken so many times. I had a best friend, the man was with me every single day for 25 years. I would have died for this person. Or ‘allegedly’ killed somebody for this person,” he said.
“So when I go through the taxes, there’s something called a forensic accountant. We looking at everything and my new accountant looks at me and he does this [Joe bows his head].”
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He added: “It says here your best friend is stealing your money and it goes back years. He’s paying his kids’ school, buying his cars with your accounts. We shared accounts where he could just go in my account and get whatever he want.”
Fat Joe later revealed that he confronted his friend but did not say what his response was other than he “really feared for his safety.” He also refused to reveal the identity of the man who allegedly stole his money.
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The Terror Squad leader also said the alleged culprit was then “cast away” from his inner circle.
Fat Joe previously had financial issues in 2012 and was sent to prison for tax evasion. It was claimed that the Bronx native had failed to pay income tax on $3 million he earnt between 2007 and 2010.
He served four months in prison between August 2013 and November 2013.
Reflecting on the experience on Jada Pinkett Smith’s Red Table Talk earlier this year, Joey Crack said his “Make It Rain” collaborator Lil Wayne gave him some sage advice on how to survive prison.
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“Lil Wayne is my brother, man,” he said. “I went to see him, he lives across the street from me in Miami. I was like, ‘Yo, Wayne, what’s up?’ And he was like, ‘Nah, man, I’m just telling you right now, be humble.’
“I said, ‘How do you do it?’ He said, ‘Just be humble, bro. Don’t go in there on somethin’. If you be humble, they’ll respect you.'”
