LAS VEGAS — A lawyer for 50 Cent said Tuesday that neither the rapper nor his security guards robbed a Los Angeles man of jewelry at gunpoint in Las Vegas earlier this month.

Celebrity website TMZ first reported that LAX Jewelry Co. owner Robert Marin said he met the rapper at a nightclub and was later invited to boxer Floyd Mayweather’s gym, where he was pistol-whipped and robbed of a diamond watch and chain valued at some $250,000 on May 2.

Marin had minor injuries when he flagged down an officer and filed a complaint about 5 a.m.

– From news service reports