May 16, 2025
The Harlem entrepreneur has defaulted on payment from a lawsuit the author won in 2020
In the latest lawsuit news for former Roc-A-Fella Records owner Damon Dash, the Harlem executive has been ordered to sell his businesses to satisfy one of his debts.
According to AllHipHop, since Dash’s company, the Dash Group, is listed under his wife’s name, a federal judge has told Raquel Horn to sell her ownership in the business and his other assets. A receiver was appointed by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York to oversee the sale of her interest in The Dash Group, which, according to court filings, is owned 100% by Horn.
This decision comes after author and filmmaker Edwyna Brooks returned to court in December 2024 because Dash had not fulfilled his financial obligation to her stemming from a case she won against him in 2020. She stated in the recent lawsuit that Dash and Horn, “[comingled] and [used] their companies as one entity and attempt to use the entities in an elaborate liability shifting scheme to avoid judgment debtors on behalf of themselves and their entities.”
Brooks won a $300,000 copyright infringement case against Dash after accusing him of marketing and selling a film project based on one of her characters, a female crime boss from a book series she wrote, “Mafietta.” He then countersued but eventually lost that case as well.
The suit, filed in December, alleges that Dash and his company, Poppington LLC, tried to hide his assets by moving them to a company not named in the suit.
“Mr. Dash has about $10 million in personal debt. If we would have been made whole from the auction, this lawsuit would not be necessary.”
“Poppington began fraudulently conveying Poppington assets” to a new entity, The Dash Group, “to avoid Brooks’ judgment.”
The Dash Group owns the America Nu streaming network, the CEOByDash website, and the children’s book “Dusko Goes To Space.”
The judge has stated that proceeds from the sale will go toward the debt owed to Brooks.
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