Now it’s a tougher knock life.
Roc-A-Fella Information’ embattled co-founder was ordered to pay $4 million for trash-talking a filmmaker on a podcast — on high of the thousands and thousands he already owes the state of New York.
Damon Sprint — who already owes the Empire State $8.7 million in again taxes — should cough up the dough after badmouthing film producer Josh Webber on the “Earn Your Leisure” podcast in March 2024, a California federal decide dominated on March 26.
In the course of the on-air rant, the previous rap mogul-turned-Jay Z-foe was discussing a dispute he and Webber had over the 2019 film “Expensive Frank,” when he claimed Webber and his companions stole from him, based on an April 2024 defamation lawsuit.
“And I knew this d—khead Chris Brown and Josh Webber and Muddy Waters…These guys set off me and steal my s–t,” he mentioned on the podcast.
Webber claimed in his go well with that he misplaced a $4-million producing and directing job due to the feedback, which have been broadcast to hundreds of listeners.
Final week, Choose John Walter made the $4 million “default judgment” in opposition to Sprint as a result of he did not “file an opposition” to the go well with, Central District of California Courtroom papers state.
The ruling marks the newest of Sprint’s monetary woes, which embrace a $823,000 judgment in a earlier authorized battle over “Expensive Frank,” together with a $300,000 judgement over a 2020 copyright infringement and $193,000 in unpaid baby assist.
Webber’s legal professional claimed to The Submit that Sprint “has not discovered his lesson and continues to defame folks.”
“In some unspecified time in the future somebody on Damon Sprint’s staff wants to inform him that Mr. Webber will all the time defend his status and rights, in any respect prices,” mentioned Christopher Brown of the agency Brown & Rosen LLC.
The on-air trash discuss in opposition to Webber got here after Sprint insisted that Jay-Z “robbed me” over file label and clothes firm dealings on a special podcast, “Massive Boy’s Neighborhood,” in 2019.
“It doesn’t matter what, I really feel he robbed me — interval,” Sprint mentioned on that podcast. “The best way he went about strikes with my enterprise was soiled.”
Sprint and the famed Brooklyn rapper co-founded Roc-A-Fella Information —which made hits corresponding to “Exhausting Knock Life” and “99 Issues” — in 1994 however have since had a falling out over funds.
Reps for Sprint and Jay-Z didn’t instantly return a request for remark Thursday.
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