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Monday, May 7, 2007 , Posted by Im_A.King at 5/07/2007 04:47:00 PM

Verizon has officially ended their deal with Akon following his raunchy on-stage romp with a 15-year-old girl in Trinidad on April 12.

Verizon promoted Akon as one of the musicians on its mobile-phone music service, and said it would no longer sponsor the Gwen Stefani tour in which Akon, who recently performed on "American Idol," is the opening act.

"This week the partnership ended," Verizon said in a statement to Fox News. "We have music services on our cell phone service and we were promoting him as one of the artists. The other part of the sponsorship was the Gwen Stefani tour, of which he was an opening act. We are no longer sponsoring the tour."