Lil’ Cease loses to Lil’ Kim

Rapper Lil’ Kim has won a court order preventing a former colleague who testified against her at her criminal trial from releasing a DVD using her name and image.

U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff said Lil’ Kim was entitled to the victory after James “Lil’ Cease” Lloyd, with whom she once teamed in the Junior M.A.F.I.A. group, failed to show up in New York Wednesday to answer the civil lawsuit.

She accused Lloyd of using her name and image to promote a DVD, “The Chronicles of Junior M.A.F.I.A. Part II: Reloaded.”

Lil’ Kim, whose real name is Kimberly Jones, was sentenced to one year and one day in prison for lying to a federal grand jury about her involvement in a 2001 gun battle outside a Manhattan radio station. She is scheduled to report to prison Sept. 19.