Dame Dash Risks Losing Engagement Ring & Other Jewelry To Cover $825K Debt

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Dame Dash is still on the hook for the $823k he owes to movie producer Josh Webber for copyright infringement and defamation – and Webber’s legal team wants to come for whatever they can, including jewelry.

In a letter filed with the court on Monday (January 13), Webber and his lawyer Christopher Brown are now looking to have Dame’s engagement ring be auctioned off.

Brown wrote the letter, first spotted by AllHipHop, to Judge Robert Lehrbuger in the Southern District of New York, citing a December 2021 AllHipHop article where Dame revealed his fiancée, Raquel Horn, had given him an engagement ring.

“The ‘engagement ring’ is owned by Dash and subject to public auction,” Brown noted.

“I loved it. It was beautiful,” Dame says in the article. “She had already accepted my engagement. We’ve asked each other to marry each other so many times, but it’s my tax problems. We are almost there. We have a baby and we are so in love. It just goes without saying.”

Dame Dash’s 33.3 percent stake in Roc-A-Fella Records was recently auctioned off to satisfy his massive debt – but he owed so many people that Webber didn’t receive a dime.

Dame also owed $193k in back child support, and faced a lawsuit filed by photographer Monique Bunn, another by a writer named Edwyna Brooks and a whopping $8 million tax debt to the state of New York.

The winning $1 million bid for the shares was placed by an anonymous New York state government employee – and it covered the back child support, with the rest being put toward the back taxes.

Just after the auction, Webber filed a request seeking ownership documents from the embattled mogul in an effort to get an order that forces Dame to deliver his media company Poppington, LLC and/or copyrights to films he produced to the United States Marshal.

The pair’s longstanding issues date back to 2016.

Although Dame was originally plucked to direct the film 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 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 ephemera to networks such as BET but changed the film’s title to The List. Dame argued they shot the film at his home using all of his equipment then stole the footage to do the movie without him.

The jury failed to see Dash’s perspective and handed down its decision in 2022.