Dmx Hit With Paternity Suit

Rapper DMX was hit with extra woes when he appeared in court on Tuesday (21SEP04) to confront an array of charges stemming from his June (03) arrest - a paternity suit.

The hip-hop star appeared in a Queens, New York, court to answer charges relating to his arrest following an altercation in the John F Kennedy Airport parking lot, in which DMX allegedly put flashing lights on his sports utility vehicle, chased a man through the lot, crashed through a toll both and attempted to assault him - over a parking space.

When police searched DMX's vehicle, they found a billy club, a small amount of crack and Depakote, a drug prescribed for people who are bipolar, reports website ALLHIPHOP.COM.

And while the case has been rescheduled for 13 October (04), a woman from Maryland showed up at the court to hit the rapper, real name Earl Simmons, with a paternity suit.

According to MONIQUE WAYNE, 24, DMX has acknowledged he is the father of her five-month-old son, which he even helped name, but he has not provided her with any child support.

The child was conceived during a one night stand after Wayne met the rapper in a nightclub in Washington, DC, last year (03).