Fat Joe Discusses Best Friend Of 25 Years Stealing From Him

"If Fat Joe bought a Lamborghini, I bought him a Lamborghini. If I bought anything, he had anything."

They say it’s the ones closest to you who will betray you, and Bronx-bred rapper. Joey Cartegena (AKA Fat Joe) knows this firsthand.

According to Complex, the entertainer spilled the beans about a close friend who stole money from him, and after confronting that said friend, the man “really feared for his safety.” Joe discussed the incident with podcast veterans Rashad Bilal and Troy Millings of Earn Your Leisure during Art Basel in Miami.

“I got my heart broken so many times. I had a best friend, the man was with me every single day for 25 years,” Fat Joe said on the podcast. “I would have died for this person. Or allegedly killed somebody for this person. If Fat Joe bought a Lamborghini, I bought him a Lamborghini. If I bought anything, he had anything.”

Then his new accountant looked into Fat Joe’s finances and discovered a shocking pattern.

“So when I go through the taxes, there’s something called a forensic accountant,” Fat Joe recalled. “We looking at everything, and my new accountant looks at me and he [bowed his head]. It says here your best friend is stealing your money and it goes back years. He’s paying his kids’ school, buying his cars with your accounts. We shared accounts where he could just go in my account and get whatever he want.”

The generous Bronx rapper even said that when he was jailed for tax evasion for four months in 2013, he made sure that his wife sent his friend $10,000 a month.

After seeing his friend, he stated: “All I could do was scream, ‘Why, why, why, why?’ Cause I would’ve gave him anything. Betrayal is hard when you deal with loyalty.”

Joe though did the right thing. He said his “friend” is no longer part of his inner circle.