Dame Dash's Attorneys Want To Cut Ties As Overdue Legal Fees Start Adding Up
Dame Dash's lawyers want to cut ties with the embattled Roc-A-Fella mogul after it was revealed that he has fallen behind on the legal fees payments.
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Dame Dash‘s attorneys are not thrilled with the embattled Roc-A-Fella co-founder as they are now trying to cut ties with him due to overdue legal fees.
According to court documents obtained by AllHipHop on Sunday (March 3), Sanders Roberts LLP filed a motion to sever ties with the entrepreneur after he breached their agreement. The company was defending him after he was sued by photographer Monique Bunn for $51 million.
The firm alleged that the mogul: “failed to fulfill their financial obligations under their retainer agreement, resulting in the firm initiating an enforcement action against them.”
Christopher Brown initially filed the lawsuit on behalf of the photographer in late February — he requested that the courts reopen Bunn’s case of damages against the Hip Hop executive, claiming that the jury in the previous case didn’t fully understand the nature of the damages Bunn had incurred as a result of Dash’s alleged actions.
According to the 285-page memorandum of law, Dame Dash confirmed the value of the photographs he allegedly withheld from Bunn and knew that he didn’t properly compensate her for using them the way he had (that is, beyond the scope of promotional purposes). For this reason, Brown argued, the case needed to be reopened.
“The evidence at trial – which was uncontroverted – established that each photo was worth $1,500, which should have resulted in a verdict for at least $384,750,000,” Brown wrote. “It is well known that professional photographers earn much of their income through licensing their portfolio of photographs, and Defendants’ actions destroyed Ms. Bunn’s economic prospects. The jury ignored the valuation evidence and awarded zero to Ms. Bunn.”
