Damon Dash is catching authorized smoke once more and this time, filmmaker Josh Webber desires him locked up for allegedly ignoring a court docket order tied to a multi-million greenback lawsuit over the movie Dear Frank.

Webber is asking a decide to slap Dash with an arrest warrant for allegedly ducking a court-mandated deadline at hand over possession papers tied to his firms and copyrighted work.

The docs are supposed to assist facilitate the public sale of Dash’s belongings, which was accredited by the court docket earlier to repay a fats $4 million judgment.

The decide had already warned Damon Dash that skipping out on the invention course of might land him in actual hassle, like fines and even jail time.

Welp, right here we’re.

A letter filed in court docket this week lays all of it out: Damon Dash and his firms, together with Dash Films Inc., Bluroc LLC, Blakroc LLC, Lebanon Improvements LLC, Ocean East Improvements LLC, and 1996 Songs LLC, had been ordered to submit possession certificates and digital copies of movie content material by July 10, 2025.

The similar goes for one more one among his entities, Poppington LLC, which was advised to cough up proof of copyright possession for a number of movies.

So far, nada.

Webber’s legal team says they’ve been in contact with Dash’s attorneys, and even they admitted Dash hasn’t turned over the products. Because of that, Webber desires the decide to hit Dash with a contempt cost and difficulty an arrest warrant to lastly power compliance.

This mess all traces again to a years-long beef over Dear Frank, a film Dash acquired booted from however later tried to say. That stunt led Webber and Muddy Water Pictures to sue for defamation and copyright infringement.

Damon Dash didn’t present up when it mattered and in 2022, he acquired hit with a $805,000 judgment. That ballooned into $4 million after Dash flamed Webber on the Earn Your Leisure podcast.

The court docket has already given the inexperienced gentle to public sale off Dash’s belongings, together with full stakes in a number of firms and copyrights to movies like “Honor Up,” “Too Honorable,” “Welcome to Blakroc,” and “We Went To…” China.

Some of Dash’s private objects, together with jewellery, is likely to be on the block, too.

Even promoting off his Roc-A-Fella stake final December wasn’t sufficient to cowl what he owes. Now, the court docket desires all remaining objects turned over to the U.S. Marshal to expedite the sale course of.

Dash’s refusal to observe by way of has Webber asking for the court docket to not solely arrest him but additionally switch the possession paperwork and copyrights on to the federal government.

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