Dame Dash‘s legal problems continue to mount as he has been ordered to pay $4 million to filmmaker Josh Webber, who he was found guilty of defaming.
According to TMZ, Dash was hit with the hefty judgment following a dispute between himself and the film producer.
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Webber initially filed the suit a year ago over claims that he had lost out on $4 million worth of work as a result of comments Dash made on the Earn Your Leisure podcast in 2024.
During his appearance on the show, the Roc-A-Fella Records co-founder claimed that the movie producer had stolen from him regarding their previous dispute over the 2019 film Dear Frank.
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Acccording to the suit, Dash said: “I had a judgment. And I knew this dickhead Chris Brown and Josh Webber and Muddy Waters … Chris Brown the lawyer. I went through four trials with the same lawyer.
“What I lost was defamation because these guys trigger me and steal my shit … you think there is freedom of speech, it’s really not.”
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The alleged comments were in reference to a previous lawsuit between the pair in which Dash was ordered to pay almost $1 million to Webber over copyright infringement and defamation allegations.
The mogul has yet to comment on the latest judgement against him.
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Although Dame Dame was originally plucked to direct Dear Frank in 2016, he was ultimately removed from the project after he was deemed unfit for the job. Webber and Muddy Water Pictures claimed he was always high on set while shooting the film on his Sherman Oaks, California property. They eventually finished the film without him.
They then sued Dash for copyright infringement and defamation in 2019, claiming he tried to shop Dear Frank around as his own. They also alleged he sent promotional material to networks such as BET, but changed the film’s title to The List.
Dame argued that they shot the film at his home using all of his equipment then stole the footage to do the movie without him.
Dash’s one-third stake in Roc-A-Fella, Inc. was recently auctioned off to satisfy his massive debts, which also include unpaid taxes and child support.
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However, the record executive owed so many people that Webber didn’t receive a dime.
Shortly after the auction, Webber filed a request seeking ownership documents from Dash in an effort to get an order that would force him to hand over his media company Poppington, LLC and/or copyrights to films he produced to the United States Marshal.
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Weeks later, Webber and his legal team filed to have Dame’s engagement ring be auctioned off as well.
