Back in February Damon Dash was ordered to auction his share of Roc-A-Fella Records to satisfy his mounting debts [click here if you missed that].
The winning bid was placed by The State of New York...
From NY Post
New York has “99 Problems” — literally.
The state government bought a one-third share of Jay-Z’s Roc-A-Fella Records at an auction Thursday in hopes of recouping $8.7 million that the label’s embattled co-founder, Damon Dash, owes in back taxes.
An anonymous Albany rep entered the winning $1 million bid at the federal auction in Manhattan in hopes of flipping the 33.3% stake in the famed hip-hop label — which produced hits such as “Hard Knock Life” and “99 Problems” — for enough cash to settle Dash’s huge tax debt.
The state made a creditors bid on the legendary rap company’s shares, meaning it didn’t have to front the $1 million, and can now resell the portion of the company at no risk.
It is not clear when or how the state will sell the label rights to pay off Dash’s tax debts.
Two other anonymous bidders were in the running — bidding $250,000 and $223,000, respectively — for the portion of the firm, which also founded the Rocawear clothing line.
New York City has also demanded more than $193,000 in unpaid child support from the record executive in recent months, according to billboard.com, and will be paid from the bid money.
“The auction is over but the work is not complete,” said attorney Chris Brown, who represents two plaintiffs to whom Dash allegedly owes money.
“Mr. Dash’s legacy is now New York state property. I will work with New York state and New York City as the next phase of ownership of the shares.”
Dash was previously listed as the 27th-most tax-delinquent Empire State resident, according to state records.
6 comments:
Owes back child support, has a 4yr old baby and is always popping off on other ppls buzz-ness. What a simp.
What happened to the relationship with JayZ for this to end this way?
^ Aaliyah and Rachel.
Hold up how or why or both is any State buying music🤔🔬🎩🪄
So New York State will make a profit n fund 401k what's New York going to buy next SKIMS🤯👹🍼🤡🥃🤬
This should be illegal for a plethora of bias reasons not alone the reasons of ethics. Is this a first? I’ve never heard of a state buying any entertainment entity.
Why would the state of NY purchase partial ownership of a failed record label or any record label? What information does Roc-A-Fella have?
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