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Uber CEO Travis Kalanick had an unlikely inspiration to help get him back into the startup world.

Speaking onstage at UCLA's Royce Hall on Monday, Kalanick addressed 1,200 entrepreneurs as he accepted the UCLA Venture Capital Fund's Entrepreneurial Achievement Award, Re/code reports.

Kalanick has always been something of an entrepreneur: When he was a kid he went door-to-door selling knives for Cutco. He started his first business at age 18, an SAT-prep course called New Way Academy.

He then spent some time as an angel investor, backing a number of startups before an unlikely figure inspired him to start another venture.

The 2008 Woody Allen film “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” ultimately helped inspire Kalanick to re-enter the startup field again, he said onstage Monday.

“I thought, ‘That guy’s old, but he’s still got it,'” he said about the director. “He still has his art. He still has the ability to relate. And he’s still sharing with the world. I said, ‘You know what? Let’s try again.'”

Kalanick went on to a series of ventures before co-founding Uber.

Before Kalanick ever thought of starting the company that would become $51 billion Uber, he was an early employee at a company called Scour. Scour was a peer-to-peer search engine for files, videos, movies, and images, which employed SMB protocol to crawl through people's Windows directories, index their files, and let others download them. Shawn Fanning, who ended up cofounding Napster, was an early Scour user.

But even though users liked Scour, movie studios and record labels did not. Scour let users download content for free without paying. A bunch of entertainment companies sued Scour for $250 billion. The company was forced to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

Almost immediately though, Kalanick started plotting his next company.

"The idea was to take those 33 litigants that sued me and turn them into customers," he told the audience at FailCon, a forum in which founders offer hard-won lessons from their business failures. "So now those dudes who are suing me are paying me."

The company, called RedSwoosh, was a networking software company. RedSwoosh launched in 2000, endured fallout from the post-9/11 stock market crash, and faced difficulty staying afloat at times. But ultimately, RedSwoosh was acquired in 2007 by Akamai for $23 million — $19 million in stock and $4 million in earn-outs.

The sale made Travis Kalanick a millionaire. Later, he'd go on to cofound Ubercab, the company that would ultimately become Uber.

SEE ALSO: Travis Kalanick's first company got sued for $250 billion — so he started a new 'revenge business' that made him a millionaire

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Decaying architecture and empty buildings can take on new life through the often dangerous and illegal activity of urban exploring. We followed photographer Will Ellis of blog Abandoned NYC through Rockland Psychiatric Center as he captures the beauty of ruin. 

Check out more of his prints in his book Abandoned NYC.

Produced by Justin Gmoser 

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Supermodel Chrissy Teigen and her husband, singer John Legend, are expecting a baby. The news comes after Teigen publicly revealed in September that she had spent years struggling to get pregnant.

Teigen and Legend got married two years ago, but Teigen told fellow supermodel Tyra Banks she would have had kids five or six years ago if it had happened naturally.

"John and I were having trouble," Teigen said on the daytime talk show "FABLife." "We would have had kids five, six years ago if it had happened, but my gosh, it's been a process. We've seen fertility doctors."

Teigen also said she had been bombarded with insensitive questions about why she hadn't started a family yet.

"The questions just come from all over, and it's kind of crazy because I can't imagine being that nosy to be like, 'So, When are the kids coming?'" Teigen said. "Because who knows what someone's going through? ... Stop asking me!"

Up to 11% of American adults struggle with fertility. Teigen's "FABLife" cohost Banks also said she had struggled with it. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who is also expecting a child, recently wrote that he and his wife had suffered three miscarriages.

Now, it's finally OK to ask Teigen and Legend about their future family. Teigen posted a photo of a tiny baby bump on Instagram on Monday evening:

"John and I are so happy to announce that we are pregnant :)" she wrote.

"As many of you know, we've been trying to have a baby for a while now. It hasn't been easy, but we kept trying because we can't wait to bring our first child into the world and grow our family. We're so excited that it's finally happening. Thank you for all your love and well wishes. I look forward to all the belly touching! Xx"

Here's the happy expecting couple:

A photo posted by chrissy teigen (@chrissyteigen) on Oct 12, 2015 at 4:55pm PDT

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No Doubt and its lead singer Gwen Stefani debuted their first hit album, "Tragic Kingdom," 20 years ago on October 10, 1995.

(We know! Where does the time go?)

The album produced smash hits such as "Spider Webs," "Don't Speak" and "Just a Girl." More than 16 million copies of it have been sold.

Here's the album cover, with Stefani on the front (on right).

Stefani is just as glamorous today as she was back then.

It makes you wonder if she actually defies aging.

The proof: Here's Stefani in the early 2000s, just a few years after the album dropped.

And again:

Here's Stefani now:

And a close up:

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Famed writer-director Quentin Tarantino has never shied away from writing material that focuses on black culture — even using the N-word in screenplays throughout his career.

In a recent profile with The New York Times Style Magazine by novelist-screenwriter Bret Easton Ellis, Tarantino spoke about how he’s depicted among African-American critics.

The Oscar-winner gave his thoughts about how his 2013 film “Django Unchained” was attacked because it was written and directed by a white man.

The film follows a free slave (Jamie Foxx) who sets out to rescue his wife (Kerry Washington) from a Mississippi plantation owner (Leonardo DiCaprio), 

“If you’ve made money being a critic in black culture in the last 20 years you have to deal with me,’’ said Tarantino in the piece. “You must have an opinion of me. You must deal with what I’m saying and deal with the consequences.’’

It’s not just the press that went against Tarantino. Following the release Spike Lee tweeted this about the film and Tarantino’s depiction of slavery in the deep South:

Tarantino continued in the Times profile:

“When the black critics came out with savage think pieces about ‘Django,’ I couldn’t have cared less. If people don’t like my movies, they don’t like my movies, and if they don’t get it, it doesn’t matter. The bad taste that was left in my mouth had to do with this: It’s been a long time since the subject of a writer’s skin was mentioned as often as mine. You wouldn’t think the color of a writer’s skin should have any effect on the words themselves. In a lot of the more ugly pieces my motives were really brought to bear in the most negative way. It’s like I’m some supervillain coming up with this stuff.’’

And he wasn’t done there.

When the subject came up of the Oscar snub last year for Ava DuVernay’s civil rights drama “Selma,” Tarantino gave a backhanded compliment to its director.

“She did a really good job on ‘Selma’ but ’Selma’ deserved an Emmy,” said Tarantino.

Tarantino’s upcoming film, “The Hateful Eight,” will begin its roadshow screenings on Christmas Day and then debut nationwide on January 8.

SEE ALSO: Why Quentin Tarantino doesn't like Netflix

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NOW WATCH: The truth about 'the most interesting man in the world'

Business Insider’s flagship conference, IGNITION, is in its 6th year running, bringing conversations with the best and brightest minds in digital. This year the conference has lined up an amazing list of speakers that includes founders of buzzy startups like Kik, Blue Apron, DraftKings, Blendle, and Refinery29, and CEOs from major corporations like CBS, GE, The New York Times, and Sony Pictures. Plus there will be demos, unicorns, YouTube stars, and group of NYC teenagers dishing about their real-world media consumption habits -- a session attendees will talk about for weeks.

Interested in hearing what Jonah Peretti is planning for BuzzFeed? Want to know how Lowell McAdam thinks the Verizon-AOL merger has gone so far? Curious to learn how Smosh picked up 21 million followers on YouTube? Hear it all straight from them by attending IGNITION in December.

Check out the incredible lineup of speakers below.

• Jeff Immelt, Chairman & CEO, GE
• Brian Roberts, Chairman & CEO, Comcast
• Jeff Bewkes, Chairman & CEO, Time Warner, Inc.
• Peggy Johnson, Executive VP and Business Development, Microsoft
• Maurice Lévy, CEO, Publicis Groupe
• Leslie Moonves, President & CEO, CBS Corporation
• Lowell McAdam, Chairman & CEO, Verizon
• Hiroshi Mikitani, Founder & CEO, Rakuten
• Jonah Peretti, Founder & CEO, BuzzFeed
• Jim Cramer, Chairman, TheStreet.com
• Al Roker, Founder & CEO, Al Roker Entertainment
• Ian Hecox & Anthony Padilla, Co-founders, SMOSH
• Sophie Lebrecht, CEO, Neon Labs
• Ted Livingston, Founder & CEO, Kik
• Michael Lynton, Chairman & CEO, Sony Pictures Entertainment
• Carolyn Everson, VP of Global Marketing Solutions, Facebook
• Jason Robins, CEO, DraftKings
• Jennifer Hyman, Co-Founder & CEO, Rent the Runway
• Thomas Tull, CEO, Legendary Entertainment
• Linda Boff, Executive Director of Global Brand Marketing, GE
• Philippe von Borries, Co-founder & Co-CEO, Refinery29
• Kerry Trainor, CEO, Vimeo
• Mark Thompson, President & CEO, The New York Times Company
• Ben Barokas, Founder & CEO, Sourcepoint Technologies
• Yoni Bloch, Founder & CEO, Interlude
• Barry Blumberg, Chief Content Officer, Defy Media
• Jim Breyer, Founder & CEO, Breyer Capital
• Mike Hopkins, CEO, Hulu
• Patrick Keane, President, Sharethrough
• Jonathan Klein, Co-founder & Chairman, Getty Images
• Alexander Klöpping, Co-founder, Blendle
• Jim Lanzone, President & CEO, CBS Interactive
• Stephanie Retblatt, Chief Brainiac, Smarty Pants
• Kevin Ryan, Chairman & Founder, Gilt Groupe
• Matthew Salzberg, Co-founder & CEO, Blue Apron
• Adam Singolda, Founder & CEO, Taboola
• Anthony Wood, Founder & CEO, Roku
• Mark Mahaney, Managing Director of Internet, RBC Capital Markets
• Gene Munster, Managing Director & Senior Research Analyst, Piper Jaffray
• Ted Leonsis, Founder & Partner, Revolution Growth

Don't miss the opportunity to get insight into their many successes and experiences, and learn what's next for the changing digital landscape. 

IGNITION takes place December 8-9 at the Time Warner Center in New York City.

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Warning: Spoiler ahead

Philippe Petit became famous around the world for walking a high wire between the Twin Towers in 1974.

Robert Zemeckis' new movie “The Walk” depicts his incredible feat. And though Petit admits some things in the movie didn’t happen he confirms one of the most bizarre moments in the movie really did.

At the end when Petit (played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is about to get on the wire to begin his walk a man in a suit appears on the roof.

Petit and his accomplice are dumbfounded and stare right at him as the man stands looking at the horizon.

Then Petit and the man lock eyes. Petit grabs a metal pipe, just in case he has to fight off the man. The man nods and walks back into the building.

Petit told Business Insider that to this day he has no clue who the man was.

“That really happened and this guy could have made the whole thing collapse,” Petit said. “He could have grabbed me and called the cops. It was a miracle that he left and he came mysteriously.

Petit wrote about the mysterious visitor in his book “To Reach the Clouds: My High Wire Walk Between the Twin Towers” (which has since been retitled “The Walk”).

In it, Petit gives more detail about what he was thinking at that moment:

“Guided by a frighteningly unconscious impulse, I find myself walking toward the visitor. He keeps walking toward me. We are walking toward each other. Thirty feet. I keep walking. It is a duel. Twenty feet. I am looking at him in the eyes. My chin is up. I feel strong. I am no afraid. Ten feet. I keep walking. I have fire in my eyes. I’m invincible. My dream is invincible. I see a short metal pipe on the floor; I slow down and pick it up. I’m not brandishing it. I’m just…

The man has stopped.

He is no longer at me. He is admiring the site with calm assertion, as if he needs to communicate his desire to avoid confrontation. Has he felt an intangible electricity in the air, a portent of doom?

The mysterious visitor — probably a businessman who works in the tower and wants to admire dawn before going to his desk — leaves my roof as he appeared, slowly and peacefully.

I take it there will be no duel today.

Except the one scheduled between the void and me, where it is written — I wrote it — “Both sides will survive.”

“The Walk” is now playing in theaters.

SEE ALSO: Joseph Gordon-Levitt learned to walk the high wire for "The Walk" from the real person he portrays in the movie

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Republican Presidential hopeful Donald Trump will be the host of "Saturday Night Live" on November 7, according to numerous reports. 

Trump last appeared as host of "SNL" in 2004. This will be his second time hosting.

Here's one of Trump's skits from 2004:

Sia will be the musical guest.

SEE ALSO: Meet Melania Trump: The 5'11" supermodel married to Donald Trump

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Multi-Grammy winning rapper T.I. had some harsh words about the possibility of a Hillary Clinton presidency.

In a wild interview with radio personality DJ Whoo Kid, T.I. said he could never bring himself to vote for Clinton primarily because of her sex.

“Not to be sexist but, I can’t vote for the leader of the free world to be a woman,” the "Blurred Lines" rapper said. “Just because, every other position that exists, I think a woman could do well.

"But the president? It’s kinda like, I just know that women make rash decisions emotionally. They make very permanent, cemented decisions – and then later, it’s kind of like it didn’t happen, or they didn’t mean for it to happen."

He later added, "They [other leaders] will not be able to negotiate the right kinds of foreign policy ... the world ain’t ready yet. I think you might be able to the Loch Ness Monster elected before you could [get a woman elected].”

The rapper subsequently apologized for his comments.

"My comments about women running for president were unequivocally insensitive and wrong," he tweeted. "I sincerely apologize to everyone I offended."

T.I. also commented on Clinton's arch rival, Republican real estate tycoon Donald Trump saying he's "interesting" and that he can relate to him on the business side of things.

"He's the best showman of them all," T.I. said. "And I do feel that if he is sincerely concerned about the economy of America and the working public, he would be the best person to flip the money that we have."

However, T.I. said he wouldn't vote for Trump because of his past "racist remarks."

"All that s--- makes it impossible to be completely supportive of him," he said. "But just knowing what he’s done for business for himself, if he intends to do that for America, it would be beneficial. But I can’t cash no vote for him.”

Among other things, the rapper was also asked if he would support/work for fellow rapper Kanye West if he runs in 2020.

He said he would assist a politician if he has a "worthy cause to benefit the people who need it the most," but that he's personally no politician, and more of a business man. He added that he respects West as a performer, but that he wouldn't cast a vote for him.

Check out the entire conversation below:

SEE ALSO: Jennifer Lawrence writes an essay on why she gets paid less than her male co-stars

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Jennifer Lawrence is the world's highest paid actress. But her high salary, which Forbes estimates was $52 million in 2014, pales in comparison to the world's highest paid actor, Robert Downey Jr., who raked in an estimated $80 million.

Lawrence realized she was underpaid when emails unearthed during the Sony hack revealed that she and Amy Adams were only offered 7% of proceeds from their movie, "American Hustle," while the male actors (Christian Bale and Bradley Cooper) and director were offered 9%. Initially, the leak email said, Lawrence was only offered 5%.

The actress has written an op-ed about why her salary is less than her male counterparts in Hollywood. She says she wrestles with not wanting to sound whiny, and as a result she doesn't demand as much as she should during negotiations.

"When the Sony hack happened and I found out how much less I was being paid than the lucky people with dicks, I didn’t get mad at Sony. I got mad at myself," Lawrence writes. "I failed as a negotiator because I gave up early. I didn’t want to keep fighting over millions of dollars that, frankly, due to two franchises, I don’t need."

Lawrence wondered if being a woman made her less confident about standing up for herself and her compensation.

"If I’m honest with myself, I would be lying if I didn’t say there was an element of wanting to be liked that influenced my decision to close the deal without a real fight. I didn’t want to seem 'difficult' or 'spoiled,'" she writes. (Fellow actress Angelina Jolie was referred to as spoiled in another Sony leaked email).

"This could be a young-person thing. It could be a personality thing. I’m sure it’s both. But ... based on the statistics, I don’t think I’m the only woman with this issue. Are we socially conditioned to behave this way? ... Could there still be a lingering habit of trying to express our opinions in a certain way that doesn’t 'offend' or 'scare' men?"

You can read Lawrence's whole letter, titled "Why do I make less than my male co-stars?" here.

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I've never been more shocked looking into a mirror. WETA Workshop, the folks that did the makeup and prosthetics for "The Lord of The Rings," "The Hobbit," and countless other awesome projects sat me down in a chair during New York Comic Con and transformed me into a Dwarf. Words can't do the crazy experience justice, take a look at their masterful transformation.

Video by Corey Protin. Report by Matt Johnston. 

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By now, you've probably seen the viral post on Imgur about how a family's home was "robbed."

It begins with this note:

"Dear Parents, I accidentally left the garage door open after I went to go see Ted. When I got back home the whole place was robbed... I'm sorry, please don't freak out when you go inside..."

Inside, every photo in the house was "Rob Lowed." Someone had cut and pasted Rob Lowe's face on every family photo ...  168 Rob Lowes in all. (Scroll down and click through the images to see the whole hilarious thing).

On Tuesday, Rob Lowe did a Reddit AMA where one Reddit asked him how he felt about people "robbing" their houses?

Lowe's answer was epic:

In today's world, being part of a cultural/internet trend is more significant than winning an Oscar, so I'd like to thank my family, my agent, my managers, and all people who are struggling in the shadows of being terminally handsome. THIS is for you.

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Few talents by today’s standards have managed to accomplish what comedians Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla of SMOSH have in their digital domination of all things viral.

Joining Business Insider’s long list of bold and brilliant disrupters at this year’s IGNITION: Future of Digital are SMOSH co-founders Hecox and Padilla, along with Defy Media Chief Content Officer Barry Blumberg, who was instrumental in partnering with the talented creators and helping scale what would become the “No. 1 most influential figures among American teens,” according to Variety, and the multi-faceted powerhouse brand it is today. 

Started in 2005, SMOSH's main channel now ranks among YouTube’s Top 3 most-viewed channels of all-time, amassing over 7 billion lifetime views and over 35 million combined channel subscribers across the Smosh family of brands. Their brand of comedy has labeled them the “SNL of the Internet” by TIME Magazine, and through multiple expansions — SMOSH Games, Shut Up Cartoons spinoffs, mobile apps, music, merchandising, and more— and the recent release of their first full-length feature film (SMOSH: The Movie), they’re comedy that simply can’t be contained to a computer screen.

Hear Hecox, Padilla, and Blumberg discuss the business of comedy, scaling a brand empire in an age where content creators rule (and what it’s like to become the first digital stars to become immortalized in wax by Madame Tussauds) at IGNITION by purchasing your tickets now.

IGNITION takes place December 8-9 at the Time Warner Center in New York City -- and you should be there! 

Follow @BI_Events on Twitter or join the IGNITION group on LinkedIn to find out who will be speaking at IGNITION 2015.

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Lamar Odom, the former NBA player and ex-husband of reality star Khloe Kardashian, is reportedly being treated for a drug overdose after being found unconscious at a brothel in Nevada. Sources inside Sunrise Hospital in Las Vegas told E! Online that "virtually every drug imaginable" was found in Odom's system and that he also possibly suffered from a stroke.

From E! Online:

[Odom] appears to have suffered an "ischemic stroke," which is caused by a blood clot preventing blood flow to the brain. This type of stroke is often associated with a cocaine overdose, among other drugs.

TMZ earlier reported that a source at the brothel described Odom as "popping eight to 10 herbal viagras at a time" while he was there.

Sources also said this type of stroke may cause long-term brain damage. According to ESPN, Odom is still alive, but the next 48 hours will be crucial.

According to Lakers beat reporter Bill Oram, who is at the hospital, doctors told the Rev. Jesse Jackson that Odom was recovering.

Odom, who has been out of the NBA since 2013, won NBA championships with the Los Angeles Lakers in 2009 and 2010, and he won the Sixth Man of the Year Award in 2011. His basketball career and life have been plagued with personal tragedy, and over the past few years he has struggled with alcohol and substance abuse.

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Netflix is laser-focused on creating its own original content, and that seems to be exactly what its audience wants, according to research by financial analysts at Raymond James.

In an analyst’s note Wednesday, Raymond James showed research it had conducted on subscriber behavior in August.

When asked in a survey to name their primary reasons for using Netflix, 31% of US subscribers cited original content.

While this number might not be surprising in itself, it is significantly more than the 23% who said they used Netflix as a substitute for TV service, and close to the 36% who answered they used it primarily for movies. (You could select more than one option in the survey.)

Netflix seems to view “originals” as a big part of its future, and these numbers suggest that’s a good bet.

Earlier this year, Netflix’s head of content, Ted Sarandos, said Netflix’s appetite for original content was only growing. And when asked what Netflix would do if cable companies stopped licensing shows to them, CEO Reed Hastings replied“just do more originals.”

This attitude suggests the Netflix of the future will look, most likely, like HBO on steroids.

Last year, original content accounted for 10% of Netflix’s content budget— but that number seems set to increase.

Morgan Stanley estimates that studios that are “vertically integrated,” the ones that have a huge stake in the future of cable television, represent about 30% of Netflix’s content spending — and only 15% if you take out major deals with Disney and CBS.

If those numbers converge toward each other, Raymond James' research suggests Netflix subscribers might welcome it. This is good news for Netflix, especially since these cable companies are becoming more reluctant to deal with a company that could one day kill them.

Sarandos has previously said Neflix’s “goal is to become HBO faster than HBO can become us.” And now it seems Netflix’s subscribers actually favor movies and original content over licensed TV.

Perhaps an HBO-like Netflix is exactly what they want.

SEE ALSO: 11 tips to make you a Netflix master

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How different would "Orange Is the New Black" have been if Ryan Murphy produced it? That was a very real possibility.

Apparently, the "American Horror Story" co-creator originally owned the rights to Piper Kerman's memoir before the Netflix show's current creator, Jenji Kohan.

"I just could never figure out how to do it," Murphy told The Hollywood Reporter. "And then the option lapsed, and it became this great big thing …"

What brought the producer and writer to admit to such a loss?

In the THR cover interview, Murphy recounted the 2008 FX pilot that never got made, "Pretty/Handsome," which told the story of a married man's gender transition. It, of course, sounds very much like the hit series from Amazon, "Transparent."

"I've never been more sure of anything in my life because I thought the story was so beautiful, just like I think [Amazon's] 'Transparent' is beautiful," he said. "And then I get a call from John Landgraf: 'It's not going.' "

Landgraf, FX's president and GM, said that the show needed more nudity than the network would have been able to air.

Well, clearly, "OITNB" ended up where it needed to land. And Murphy is making the kinds of shows he's excels at: Fox's "Scream Queens," FX's "American Horror Story: Hotel," and the upcoming "American Crime Story: The People Vs. O.J. Simpson.

SEE ALSO: Here's how 'Scream Queens' gets around Lea Michele and Ariana Grande's refusal to scream

MORE: Meet TV's new 'It' girl Emma Roberts — she's Hollywood royalty who plays a nightmare sorority girl on Fox's 'Scream Queens'

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NOW WATCH: Lil Wayne says Drake is getting screwed out of money by his record label

After filing for bankruptcy this summer, 50 Cent wants you to know he is not broke.

The rapper had a little fun with his 6.5 million Instagram followers on Wednesday morning, posting two photos and one video of himself covered in $100 bills.

"I hustle so hard, I can't see me legs," the rapper captioned this first tongue-in-cheek video:

"Ok I found my legs, but I can't find nothing to watch on TV. Power season 3 on the way," 50 Cent joked in the below photo, referring to his series on Starz.

In true 50 form, he then set up a sarcastic photo shoot spelling out the word "BROKE" using $100 bills. "Man this lunch money, I gotta go to work I'm still up, no Sleep at all," he wrote.

The rapper's series of money-flaunting posts comes after last week's news that he is suing his former lawyers for $75 million, accusing them of doing a terrible job representing him in a lawsuit against Sleek Audio, which ended with the rapper having to pay almost $20 million.

Additionally, the price of 50 Cent's Connecticut mansion was slashed this week from $18.5 million down to $8.5 million.

In July, 50 Cent, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protectionjust days after he lost a messy $5 million lawsuitfor publishing a sex tape featuring his rival Rick Ross' ex-girlfriend without her consent.

"It's strategic," the rapper later told Larry King of why he filed for bankruptcy. "It's a move that was necessary for me to make at this point so I didn't allow myself to create that big red and white bull's-eye on my back, where I become the person that people consistently come to."

Despite 50 Cent's filing, he has continued to keep up appearances on Instagram:

50 Cent was previously one of the world's wealthiest rappers, largely thanks to his minority stake in Vitamin Water. In 2007, the Coca-Cola Company acquired Vitamin Water from Glacéau for $4.1 billion.

According to The Washington Post at the time, "50 Cent was thought to have walked away with a figure somewhere between $60 million and $100 million, putting his net worth at nearly a half billion dollars."

While the rapper no longer has an equity stake in the company, he continued to act as a spokesman for Vitamin Water, and he now promotes Effen Vodka all over his social-media accounts.

Additionally, the rapper's studio albums alone have sold more than 21 million units, and he has starred in a long list of film and TV projects, including Starz's new hit "Power."

In May, Forbes estimated 50 Cent's net worth at $155 million, ranking him No. 4 on the list of the wealthiest hip-hop artists.

SEE ALSO: 50 Cent is suing his old lawyers for $75 million

MORE: 50 Cent is still stuck with his sprawling Connecticut mansion after filing for bankruptcy Bankrupt

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NOW WATCH: 50 Cent once sat in this home — which he can no longer afford — and told Oprah he would never go broke

It has only been three years since the first "Hunger Games" movie was released, but it feels like we have seen the cast grow up before our eyes.

This franchise, based on the hugely popular books, assembled a mixed cast of established and emerging stars.

Thanks to a cumulative box office gross of over $2.3 billion worldwide, its lead actress is now one of the biggest stars in the world. The final installment of the franchise will be out on November 20.

Here is a look at the cast of "The Hunger Games," at their first "Hunger Games" red carpet and now.

SEE ALSO: Disney announced all its movies coming in the next 4 years — here's what you have to look forward to

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Jennifer Lawrence plays accidental hero Katniss Everdeen.

Lawrence's star was on the rise when the first "Hunger Games" was released. She had just been nominated for an Oscar for her performance in "Winter's Bone."

Lawrence is the currently the highest paid actress in Hollywood. She deservedly won an Oscar for "Silver Linings Playbook" in 2012. Along with "The Hunger Games," she also has a huge role in the rebooted "X-Men" franchise.

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