Dame Dash is threatening to sue a number of of his former collaborators and authorized adversaries for $100 million in a civil RICO lawsuit, escalating his years-long feud over possession and credit score disputes associated to his movie and enterprise ventures.
According to courtroom filings from the Southern District of New York, Dash despatched a proper discover on September 17, 2025, saying his intent to sue a gaggle together with filmmaker Josh Webber, producer Tony White, actress Claudia Jordan, lawyer Christopher Brown, and others. In the letter, Dash accuses the events of “fraud, perjury, theft of intellectual property, defamation, tortious interference, harassment, and financial manipulation,” claiming he has suffered greater than $100 million in damages.
Dash alleges that he conceived, financed, and directed The Listlater retitled Dear Frankhowever was reduce out of the undertaking and by no means compensated. He claims the movie’s producers and authorized representatives conspired to misappropriate his work, take away his credit, and defame him publicly.
In the identical demand letter, Dash additionally accuses lawyer Chris Brown of orchestrating “fraudulent litigation” by means of a number of coordinated lawsuits designed to break his status and funds, finally forcing him out of business. He claims that Brown and others manipulated his property, together with his fairness in Roc-A-Fella Inc., and interfered together with his authorized illustration so as to set off a default judgment.
The submitting additionally particulars Dash’s grievances over alleged enterprise misappropriation in a hashish enterprise with Larry Smith, who Dash says excluded him from income tied to a pressure he developed with Cam’ron known as “Pink Mink.”
Dash’s letter calls for that the accused events difficulty public retractions, stop all defamatory exercise, present revenue accountings from his initiatives, and pay $100 million inside 14 days or face a federal RICO lawsuit.
The fiery discover comes as Dash stays embroiled in a number of ongoing courtroom battles. Just days after his RICO menace, attorneys for Webber and Muddy Water Pictures filed a letter with the courtroom urging that proceedings proceed in opposition to Dash’s firm, Poppington LLC, regardless of Dash’s chapter submitting. The plaintiffs are searching for to promote Poppington’s movie property, together with Honor Up and Too Honorableand the album Welcome to Blackrocby means of a U.S. Marshal public sale, arguing that Dash has no authorized authority to halt the sale.
In that very same submitting, lawyer Christopher Brown alleged that Dash’s chapter was a stalling tactic, noting that the entrepreneur had lately introduced new ventures, together with a distribution cope with Sony Music for his group Black Guns, a ebook cope with Simon & Schuster, and even the acquisition of “new diamond dentures.”
Despite his authorized woes, Dash has remained defiant, telling The Breakfast Club final month that he stands by his price and refuses to let others “define” him financially.
If filed, Dash’s threatened lawsuit would mark one of the vital explosive authorized counters in his long-running feud with Webber and his former enterprise associates.