Case Insights
- Financial Reckoning for Hip-Hop Mogul: Damon Dash has been ordered by a federal judge to hand over multiple companies and copyrights after failing to pay a court-ordered judgment exceeding $823,000.
- Significant Business Assets on the Auction Block: The ruling covers Dash Films Inc., Bluroc LLC, Blakroc LLC, plus valuable film copyrights—including Honor Up and Too Honorable—to be auctioned by the U.S. Marshal.
- Implications for Dash and the Industry: Unless Dash acts before June 16, 2025, these assets will be sold off to satisfy the debt, spotlighting a dramatic fall from his co-founding days at Roc-A-Fella Records.
By Samuel Lopez – USA Herald
MANHATTAN, N.Y. – The saga of Damon Dash—music mogul, film producer, and former Roc-A-Fella Records co-founder—has taken a decisive legal turn. A federal judge has ordered Dash to forfeit a portfolio of companies and film copyrights after Dash failed to pay a $823,284.71 court judgment. The assets, ranging from record labels to movie copyrights, are now set for public auction unless Dash moves swiftly to contest the ruling.
Damon Dash rose to prominence as the brash, enterprising co-founder of Roc-A-Fella Records, a name synonymous with hip-hop’s commercial breakthrough in the late 1990s and early 2000s. But Dash’s high-profile career has long been shadowed by persistent legal and financial setbacks—tax liens, child support disputes, and lawsuits from former business partners.
The latest—and perhaps most damaging—chapter unfolded in a Manhattan federal court. On June 9, 2025, U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert W. Lehrburger issued a scathing order: Dash and his company, Poppington LLC, must surrender full ownership stakes in several business entities and film properties to resolve a debt owed to filmmaker Josh Webber and Muddy Water Pictures.
According to the court order, Dash and Poppington LLC must immediately turn over the following assets:
