Rick Ross' Past As a Correctional Officer Exposed

A few weeks ago, a photo of Miami rapper Rick Ross leaked to the internet. The photo showed a man dressed in a prison guard uniform and favored the husky rapper quite very closely.

Since its leak Ross has denied outright, several times, that the photo was fake, and even went as far as to say it was doctored via Photoshop. Ross says "online hackers" put "my face when I was a teenager in high school on other peoples' body."

Despite the denial, those photos may just be real, and his life as a Miami gangster that trafficked massive amounts of cocaine may just be a fairy tale.

TheSmokingGun.com (TSG) posted payroll documents on Monday (July 21) proving that Ross did, in fact, work as a correctional officer for 18 months back in the mid-90s.

Records show that Ross (real name: William Leonard Roberts) was appointed a prison guard in December 1995 at a salary of $22,913.54, and left the department in 1997.

The rapper's social security number, which is also on the document, is identical to that of the jail guard.

TSG says that the widely distributed photo of the rapper wearing the correction officer uniform is of a 19-year-old Rick Ross before all the rap fame. The photo was taken at a Department of Corrections ceremony, honoring the department's graduating class, which the rapper was a part of.

Shortly after graduating, he began work at the South Florida Reception Center in Dade County.

At press time, Ross had yet to comment on the story.

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