Damon Dash’s bankruptcy case may have more than his creditors seized his right to live, in order to regain millions of debt.
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Damon Dash may soon see more of his money – his personal story and image may be robbed in his ongoing bankruptcy case in Florida.
Attorneys for some DASH creditors believe the former ROC-A-Fella Records executive failed to disclose his “right to life” in his Chapter 7 filing, claiming that the rights could be sold to help pay off more than $20 million in debt.
The legal team noted that Dash’s public role and career history had great commercial value, especially because of his connection to the legacy of Jay-Z and Roc-A-Fella.
Christopher Brown, an attorney representing multiple judgment creditors, accused Damon Dash of omitting key assets and providing misleading information in the bankruptcy petition.
“The debtor did not disclose his life story right,” Brown wrote in the archives, adding that based on his life, Dash’s statements about the biopic proved that he knew his rights existed and had value.
Brown noted that Dash’s public comments on making a movie based on his life refer to the 2022 media coverage of potential Roc-A-Fella movies.
He claimed that Damon Dash deliberately omitted these rights from his list of assets, which would qualify them for liquidation.
The document also accused of listing the torture of the UPS store mailbox, rather than his actual residence, and did not report the commercial interests the U.S. marshal had seized for the public auction.
Brown claims that Dash’s bankruptcy filing is a strategy to delay or prevent creditors from ruling under court orders.
“The debtor’s bankruptcy filing is a transparent attempt to thwart the collection of final judgments,” Brown said. “Brown compared Dash’s case with Alex Jones’ case, which also ruled as a billion-dollar lawsuit that cannot be ruled in bankruptcy court.
Brown stressed that the automatic stay triggered by the bankruptcy filing does not prevent the auction of the company’s assets that Dash has been detained by the government.
Damon Dash may not be able to control his story if the court agrees.
