The Shade Room said they want to make it 'abundantly clear' that 50 Cent did not receive penis enhancement surgery and deleted posts after the rapper's defamation lawsuit named the gossip site

• The Shade Room deleted a series of posts that implied that 50 Cent underwent penis surgery.
• The retractions follow a settlement between the rapper and the gossip site.

Gossip blog site The Shade Room scrubbed a series of posts on their site and social media which insinuated that rapper and producer 50 Cent underwent a penis enlargement surgery.

The blog site announced on Wednesday that an article suggesting the rapper got the procedure was taken down following a settlement deal between the parties, according to Los Angeles Magazine reporter Meghann Cuniff.

The claim was first tied to a Florida plastic surgeon who posted a photo of her with 50 Cent, born Curtis Jackson, on her social media, thanking him for "stopping by." 50 Cent's lawsuit claimed that plastic surgeon Angela Kogan's photo, which he thought was just a selfie with a fan, was used in a Shade Room article about celebrities getting penis enhancement surgery.

In September 2022, 50 Cent originally sued Kogan and her spa MedSpa for defamation, and by January, his legal team filed an amended complaint that added The Shade Room as a defendant after they claimed the media company ignored subpoenas.

The Shade Room and MedSpa did not return Insider's requests for comment.

Through its Instagram account with 28 million followers, The Shade Room posted last Wednesday in an untypically formal tone that it wants to "make it abundantly clear that 50 Cent did not have penis enhancement surgery or any other procedure to augment his genitals and any implication to the contrary is false."

The statement added that photos of 50 Cent spliced next to a man receiving the procedure with "a euphemistic eggplant emoji covering the exposed groin area" were deleted.

According to the notice of settlement, Shade Room's deletion means they will no longer be a defendant in the "In da Club" rapper's federal defamation and invasion of privacy lawsuit filed in Florida. But plastic surgeon Angela Kogan and her business Perfection Plastic Surgery & MedSpa are still very much involved.

It is unclear how much 50 Cent and The Shade Room settled for in the otherwise ongoing lawsuit.

The gossip outlet also took down a series of follow-up posts that made the insinuation about 50 Cent.

The rumor mill started on August 17, 2022 through a Shade Room article that quoted Kogan talking about her "extensive clientele of celebrities, including 50 Cent."

The article on the Shade Room, which set off a chain reaction of litigation, was titled "Penis Enhancements Are More Popular Than Ever & BBLs Are Dying Out: Cosmetic Surgery CEO Angela Kogan Speaks On It." Directly after 50 Cent is mentioned in the piece, a line follows, saying, "more men are getting plastic surgery (down there) than ever before," per the lawsuit.

Representatives for 50 Cent did not respond to Insider's request for comment.

The complaint stated that Kogan often posted photos with celebrities but that her photo with 50 Cent "was shockingly utilized in an article in the gossip publication The Shade Room to support the false insinuation that Kogan or MedSpa had provided a penile enhancement treatment to Jackson."