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When The Checks Stop Coming In: Damon Dash Struggling To Keep Roof Over His Head, Facing Eviction With Millions Owed In Taxes And Lawsuits

Poor thang. Dame Dash has gone from ballin’ to broke . Via NYDailyNews reports : Hip-hop mogul Damon Dash is so deeply in debt that he claims in court documents he faces imminent eviction from a rented mansion in suburban Carmel, N.Y. “I am currently several months behind in paying my personal bills,” he wrote Tuesday in the 5-page filing. “For instance, I am currently over $100,000 behind in rent for the only home in which I live and at risk of being evicted.” Dash lost a pair of multimillion-dollar Tribeca lofts to foreclosure in 2010, with $7.3 million left on the massive mortgages. An acrimonious 2004 split with his old pal initially netted Dash a $20 million windfall — but eventually left the 42-year-old facing hard financial times. Failed business deals, huge tax debts and repeated legal battles quickly left his deep pockets almost empty. Court records show Dash lost a slew of lawsuits filed by landlords, fashion designer Charlotte Ronson and a celebrity bodyguard firm. And pass-the-buck Dash claimed one business, dubbed “Fresh to Death,” was submarined by a “poor business decision made by my partners.” It was unclear what the business, named for a trademark Dash quote, actually did. In addition to his foreclosed homes, his leased SUV was seized in 2008 after he missed his $714.99 monthly payment. According to his court filing, Dash faces possible criminal prosecution for non-payment of taxes in New Jersey. Documents indicate Dash also owes more than $2 million in taxes to New York state, and he conceded owing federal income taxes. Yet a September 2011 article portrayed Dash as still living large, describing his Carmel home as equipped with a full music studio, a pool, hardwood floors and a spectacular view. In a sworn statement asking a judge not to garnish his wages, Dash disclosed: – He pays $24,000 every three months to his ex-wife, fashion designer Rachel Roy, for child support of their two kids, and to cover money owed on the lofts. – New York state forces Dash to send another $4,341.10 per month for support of his son, Christian. – He paid nearly $20,000 in garnished wages in late 2012 for other debts. – And he faces a pending $40,000 tax payment for business earnings. The drumbeat of debt has “made it not only nearly impossible for me to maintain my businesses, they have caused me to fall far behind on my personal expenses,” Dash wrote. He was in Manhattan Supreme Court on Thursday to fight a charge of ignoring a 2008 lawsuit from a garment industry lender seeking payback for a $237,078 loan. While Dash declined to discuss his finances, he flashed cell phone shots of art galleries he owns in Charleston, S.C., and Hong Kong. “I’m an independent businessman and this is what comes from business,” Dash said in an email from his attorney, Gregg A. Pinto. “I have the guts to fight my battles on my own and it’s entertainment to everybody else because I’m so cool about it.” SMH. Forget being cool about it, maybe humble yourself and stop screwing folks so much that they have to SUE your azz! This guy is the epitome of living beyond his means. Do you think he’ll be able to work his way out of this one? WENN Continue reading

You Can’t Be Serious: White Man Enlists Help Killing Wife From Black Co-Worker “You’re Black, I Know Y’all Know People”

This ignorant fool deserves to be in jail for this isht! Stephen Perry of Carmel Indiana is currently locked up awaiting trial after enlisting his black co-worker to kill his estranged wife, which he thought would help resolve serious debt issues the couple faced. According to JCOnline reports : Last month, Perry offered a co-worker $15,000 to kill his estranged wife so he could collect the money he thought she owed him and get rid of his former lover for good, police records say. Perry, 27, faces charges of conspiracy to commit murder while he sits in Hamilton County Jail. In mid-November, while working at a Valvoline Instant Oil Change in Carmel, Perry asked a co-worker whether he knew someone who could kill another person, according to a probable cause affidavit. Perry went to the co-worker, Adrian Howard, because Howard is black, the affidavit says. “You’re black,” Howard later recalled Perry saying, according to the affidavit. “I know ya’ll know people.” Howard initially thought Perry was joking, the affidavit says, but started to believe him after Perry said he wanted his estranged wife dead to settle their divorce and gain some money. On Dec. 8, Howard recorded two conversations with Perry on a cellphone while they were alone at work. During the conversations, Perry offered Howard $15,000, and a machine to print counterfeit money, to kill — or have another black person kill — his estranged wife, the affidavit says. “I just want this to be over and done with,” Perry said, according to a five-minute recording described in the affidavit. “So if she dies, I can drop the divorce lawsuit, she’s dead and I’m free.” Howard replied, “That ain’t what you want, man.” Perry, the affidavit says, then said he wanted the woman “done.” Perry handed Howard a paper with his estranged wife’s name and address, the affidavit says, and said she was living with her grandparents. Perry allegedly told Howard: “Do you want me to draw you a map of the house, how it’s laid out so you don’t kill her grandparents, just take care of her?” Howard then took the paper and said he would call some people. Perry, according to the recording, asked that Howard keep the killer’s identity secret. “I don’t want to know who, all right?” Perry allegedly said. “And if they can make it look like an accident. I mean we live in Carmel. So, you know. Black people in Carmel?” Later that month, Howard searched online for the name of Perry’s estranged wife, Allison Mayer. Mayer is the owner of a photography shop in Carmel. Howard then texted Mayer and said it was “very important that she contact him,” the affidavit says. The two met at a Starbucks, and Howard played two recordings between him and Perry. Mayer took the recordings to Carmel police. She told a detective that she and Perry had been married since December 2009 but that he had moved out in March 2012 and filed for divorce in Marion County about two months later. Several hearings on their divorce had been delayed, causing the divorce process to stretch for more than half a year. Mayer told the detective she and Perry were $200,000 in debt and that $170,000 of it came from her living expenses and college tuition. The rest, she said, came from credit cards and a civil judgment involving an apartment where they had lived. Perry, Mayer told police, believed she owed him $15,000 and told people she had stolen it from him. This woman would probably be dead if not for that black co-worker — cuz from the sound of it Perry would have kept looking until he found a “black person” who would have carried out the job. SMH! Sad to see there are folks out there who think having a murder committed is as simple as just asking a black person to “hook it up.” Photo Credit: Hamilton County Police

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Chit-Chatter: BET Co-Founder Sheila Johnson Lays On The BET Slander And Says The Network Today Is All About “Negative Stereotypes”

BET Co-Founder Criticizes The Network For What It Has Become If you’ve ever watched BET in recent years and felt like things have changed for the worst since founder Bob Johnson retired from the company, you’re not alone. BET co-founder and ex-wife of Bob Johnson, Sheila Johnson says she is not happy with the way that things have gone at BET since and she and her ex-husband handed over the reigns back in 2005. via EurWeb Sheila Johnson, co-founder of the black network, gave BET a piece of her mind before, and she did it again, recently. She was the speaker at the “Conversations and Encounters” program at the Carmel Art and Film Festival in Monterey County, Calif. this weekend. She shared her story about the successes and life achievements both she and her husband built together over the years, expressing that she is most proud of BET’s Teen Summit, which ran from 1989 to 2002. But her moment of admitted accomplishments quickly turned to what appeared to be disappointment and built up anger; claiming that her product now ”reinforces negative stereotypes of young people, African Americans in particular.” And you know it didn’t end there. “I think we squandered a really important cable network, when it really could have been the voice of Black America. We’re losing our voice as a race as a result,” she ranted. “I’m really worried about what our young people are watching. There are so many young people who are using the television as a babysitter. We have parents who are not being parents and not monitoring what their children are watching.” Do you agree with Sheila? Read more at

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Monterey, California Switching to Sea As Primary Water Source

Photo via foxypar4 In the face of an increasing water shortage, last November state regulators told Monterey County to curb its withdrawals from the Carmel River, the current main water source, by 70% by 2016. With no where else to turn for water, the county is turning its eyes to the ocean, and launching an enormous desalination project to provide water to about 100,000 customers. It’s controversial, but some argue desalination is the only choice the penninsula has for finding water outside of the Carmel River. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Monterey, California Switching to Sea As Primary Water Source