Dame Sprint‘s meteor-sized money crater of monetary woes Dame Sprint is being dug even deeper this week. The Roc-A-Fella Data cofounder is reportedly shedding corporations and copyrights with a purpose to repay greater than $800,000 in debt.

Dame Sprint Pressured to Hand Over His Most Helpful Belongings As a result of He Did not Pay Up

In keeping with a report printed by AllHipHop.com on Wednesday (June 11), Dame Sprint didn’t pay $823,284 in damages awarded to filmmaker Josh Webber in 2022 stemming from a defamation and copyright infringement lawsuit in 2019. Because of this, Dame is being compelled to half methods with main belongings, together with varied copyrights and even his movie firm, amongst different companies.

What Firms and Copyrights Will Dame Sprint Lose?

U.S. Justice of the Peace Choose Robert W. Lehrburger issued a ruling on Tuesday (June 9) requiring Sprint and his firm, Poppington LLC, handy over full possession of Bluroc LLC, Blakroc LLC and Sprint Movies Inc. Dame may even fork over any pursuits in corporations like 1996 Songs LLC, Lebanon Enhancements LLC and Ocean East Enhancements LLC.

Copyrights to films made by Dame and his umbrella firm, Poppington, may even be surrendered to cowl Dame’s debt. The rights to movies embody these of Honor Up, Too Honorable, We Went to… China and Welcome to Blackroc.

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What Will Occur to Dame Sprint’s Belongings?

Dame Sprint and his authorized staff have till Monday (June 16) to file an objection to the federal forfeiture ruling. After that, the U.S. Marshal will put all the belongings talked about up for public sale inside 180 days.

Dame Sprint Has Been Pressured to Promote Belongings Earlier than, Together with His Stake in Roc-A-Fella

Whereas Dame Sprint and Poppington’s belongings will doubtless be auctioned off to pay the $823,284 owed as a part of the Josh Webber lawsuit over rights to the movie Pricey Frank, this is not the primary time Dame confronted a lot of these penalties for arising brief with the money. After being ordered to surrender his stake in Roc-A-Fella Data final 12 months, the State of New York swooped in and purchased the asset for $1 million. They used it as a bit of the multi-million-dollar pie Sprint owed in again taxes.

XXL has reached out to Dame Sprint’s lawyer for a press release on the ruling.

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