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Rapper 50 Cent made a desperate attempt Friday to protect his pocketbook by telling a federal bankruptcy judge his sad-sack life story, but the judge wasn’t moved.

“It is easy to forget that Mr. Jackson grew up in poverty in South Jamaica, a rough neighborhood of Queens, New York,” papers submitted in the Connecticut bankruptcy court by the rapper’s lawyer say.

“His single mother was murdered when Mr. Jackson was only 8 years old,” attorney Patrick Neligan Jr. wrote. “As a boy, Mr. Jackson dreamed of being a boxer, but by the time he was a teenager, he was caught up in a life of crime.”

But Jackson turned his life around after being shot nine times in 2000.

“After recovering from his injuries, Mr. Jackson determined to improve his life and focused on his music,” the papers trumpet, explaining he went on to become a multi-platinum artist who “typifies the American dream” and even became a philanthropist, feeding poor children and helping 9/11 victims.

Federal Judge Ann Nevins didn’t buy the story and ordered Jackson to face the second stage of a $5 million sex-tape trial in Manhattan on Monday.