LONG ISLAND, New York --

After a multi-million dollar home owned by 50 Cent was destroyed by a blaze early Friday, the rapper’s ex-girlfriend is pointing the finger straight at 50.

The home, which was essentially burned to the ground, has been at the center of a bitter dispute between 50 and his ex, Shaniqua Tompkins.

Now, Tompkins is claiming the rapper is behind the fire, which engulfed the Long Island home.

“He threatened me. [He said] ‘Watch what I’ll do. I’ll have somebody kill you’ and this is what he did,” Tompkins told reporters following the blaze. “He cannot except that I moved on with my life. He tried to kill me and his own child.”

Tompkins was home at the time, along with 50’s 10-year-old son, Marquise. They, along with four others, were hospitalized after suffering smoke inhalation and later released, according to officials.

“[We] couldn’t make it downstairs. We had to jump out the window,” Tompkins claimed.

50 (whose real name is Curtis Jackson) does not live in the home is not a suspect, according to authorities.

“Any suggestion that Mr. Jackson had anything whatsoever to do with the fire at his home is outrageous and offensive,” Brett Kimmel, attorney for 50 Cent, said in a statement to Access Hollywood.

While 50 is not being named as a suspect, one fire official described the fire as “definitely suspicious” based on the intensity of the blaze. Arson investigators are currently looking into the cause of the inferno.

Last month, 50 allegedly tried to evict his ex and their son from the home unless Tompkins started paying rent.

“Do you think he hired someone to do this?” a reporter on the scene asked Tompkins after the fire.

“Yes, he’s too much of a coward to do it himself,” she insisted. “He has made no attempt to find out if his son is OK.”

According to The Associated Press, Tompkins’ lawyer, Paul Catsandonis, said that the dispute over the house had recently become “extremely, extremely contentious.” While he wouldn’t provide specifics, Catsandonis said there was an “extremely dangerous incident…involving the parties in question” Monday in his Manhattan office while taking a deposition for the lawsuit.

Catsandonis said the 32-year-old rapper paid about $2.4 million for the house last year, one of the largest in the Long Island neighborhood of Dix Hills.

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