Gawker: damon+dash

Doug E. Fresh Needs $4 Million, Quick

Hamilton Nolan — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:29:25 EST

First Damon Dash's apartment got foreclosed upon, and now Doug E. Fresh is facing the same fate. One more to a full trend! We need more rhymes about financial planning:

"Rap icon Doug E. Fresh - best known for his '80s hit "The Show" - has been socked with three foreclosure actions by banks looking to collect more than $3.5 million in unpaid mortgages on a trio of his Harlem homes."

Not to mention another almost half mil in credit card debt and back taxes. Come on, somebody help this man! This is the rapper friendly enough to bring kids urgent heart health messages! The Post says Doug E.'s just about to open a chicken and waffles place in Harlem. So if you love hip hop say OH- YEAAAAAAA, and then go buy $4 million in chicken and waffles. For the love. [NYP]

Hip Hop Mogul Faces Foreclosure

Hamilton Nolan — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:38:30 EDT

Times are hard for celebrities: Rocafella Records co-founder and former Jay-Z sidekick Damon Dash (pictured, with Maybach) can't pay his mortgage! His bank has started foreclosure proceedings on his two apartments after the mini-mogul failed to pay his combined $78,500-per-month mortgage. Times are also hard for celebrity coverage: as you can see, it's been reduced to finding ways to tie in the mortgage crisis with celebrity lifestyles. The media's already expanded the definition of "celebrity" to include politicians and athletes, so playing off real estate trends is a logical next step. There's a massive news hole to fill. First Ed McMahon was foreclosed on, now this! When will it stop? We can't wait to find out! [Newsday. Pic via NYM]

The Accompanied Library Is Back—Thanks To Damon Dash?

Joshua Stein — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:15:23 EDT

Last night we were at the National Arts Club for the launch party for Supper Club, Tamsin Lonsdale's socialite dining and dating club, now being imported from London. Supper Club boasts a huge committee of the social set. Everyone's breath smelled like smoked salmon. The place brings back memories! The National Arts Club used to rent out an apartment there, via sort-of art dealer and real estate heir and "party-going bachelor" Tim Nye, to the Accompanied Library, the now-defunct lending library and literary salon. But apparently the relationship between Library co-founder Brooke Geahan and Nye went south, and Nye tossed them out.

I think I was the only sucker who paid dues to the Accompanied Library; they asked for $500 a year but after much deliberation gave it to me for $250.

So last night, conversation at one point turned to Brooke. She was supposed to be there—but apparently she told someone that "I can't support anything at the National Arts Club."

Still bitter! Guess those "rent issues" or whatever were pretty dispiriting. Plus, she also had some board troubles; art dealer Gavin Brown had been on the advisory board, but we think that also went south.

But Brooke has bounced back from the troubles! She recently befriended hip hop producer Damon Dash, who is married to designer Rachel Roy. We hear he has been instrumental in helping the Accompanied Library to acquire some capacious offices downtown.

[Photo: Gregorio Binuya/Getty Images]

Hip hop mogul Damon Dash is writing a weekly...

abalk — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 10:10:08 EDT

Hip hop mogul Damon Dash is writing a weekly business column for subway handout Metro. Expect horoscopes from L.A. Reid in A.M. New York any day now. [WWD]

Celebrity Trading: Damon Dash Makes Dollars

Choire — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 18:15:56 EDT

Trader Monthly, our favorite magazine in the world for thick-necked cigar-smoking i-bankers and the women who unwillingly love them behind dumpsters on 27th Street, has been giving various random people $50K to invest, with the profits going to charity. The results to date prove, unsurprisingly, that Damon Dash is a lot smarter than Moby, and that Jamie-Lynn Sigler is dumb as all get-out.

Trader Monthly

Gossip Roundup: Damon Dash's UWS Street Justice

Jessica — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 10:57:37 EST

• Hip-Hop mogul Damon Dash keeps the area around 89th Street and Central Park West safe for his son, whose cell phone was stolen by local "thugs." Next up, Dash will work on eliminating gang activity outside Dylan's Candy Store. [Page Six]
• Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt settle the details of their divorce: He gets the production company, she gets the house and the bloated alcoholic. [IMDb]
• Model Molly Simms is reportedly unhappy with her picture in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. As it turns out, most women don't enjoy looking like Vegas hookers. [Gatecrasher]
• Rapper Eve falls for Teodorin Nguema Obiang, the son of Equitorial Guinea dictator Teodoro Nguema. Spending Christmas on Paul Allen's yacht, however, makes it easy for to Eve to forget that whole torture situation. [R&M]
• Because he knows how to read, Henry Rollins is a threat to Australian national security. [Page Six]
• Chelsea Clinton lays low with her new boyfriend, Goldman Sachs banker Marc Mezvinsky. Not that we were particularly intrigued by the whole situation. [Lowdown]

Gossip Roundup: Damon Dash Just Really Loves Office Furniture

Jessica — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 12:10:12 EDT

• As he vacated the offices of Rocawear, hip-hop mogul Damon Dash took every piece of furniture, the blinds, and even the doorknobs with him. Be patient; it'll take him till Friday to catalogue and price everything for eBay. [Lowdown (2nd item)]
• Is Katie Holmes' Catholic father more pissed because his daughter has become a Scientologist, or because the unmarried starlet is pregnant with a fake baby? [Scoop]
• Prompted by yesterday's much-ballyhooed (by which we mean "emailed to almost every account on earth") Ubersexual List, Rush Limbaugh accuses U2 frontman and resident Ubersexual Bono of having a mistress then devours an entire bottle of Oxycontin. [Page Six]
• Rich people not allowed to add more height to the multi-million dollar Greenwich Village enclaves, prompting the overdue return of Russian heiress Anna Anisomova to the comfort of gossip columns. [R&M (2nd item)]

Gossip Roundup: Paris Steals Mary-Kate's Boyfriend

Jessica — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 11:07:05 EDT

• Not even a week after Paris Hilton officially announced the break-off of her engagement to Paris Latsis, the heiress has been spotted skanking around with Stavros Niarchos, aka Mary-Kate Olsen's boyfriend. If our little squirrel twin goes into an anorexic tailspin because of this, we will kill Hilton with our bare hands. Bitch. [Page Six]
• Because everyone (but you) has a book deal, CNN's silver hearthrob Anderson Cooper is reportedly pulling around $1 million for a memoir of the past year of his life. Even more amazing: The furious bidding war for Cooper's tome was sparked by, well, nothing — there's no proposal, no outline, just the magic of Coop. [Lowdown]
• What's up with Lindsay Lohan's crankypants? They certainly don't fit her well, especially now that she's eating. [Page Six]
• Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore may be legally married, but their crackpot Kabbalah rabbi wasn't ordained — meaning their union is less kosher than a pulled pork sandwich.
• When things don't go well at Damon Dash's America mag, the Roc-a-fella co-founder throws punches. [R&M]

Gossip Roundup: Pugilistic Press Punch-Out!

Jessica — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 11:57:37 EDT

• Post EIC Col Allan throws down to defend his deputy editor Colin Myler in a Soho House brawl with some unnamed Aussie journo. Holy shit, does this mean Soho House is cool again? [R&M]
• A moment of silence, please, for the relationship between hip-hop mogul Jay-Z and his business partner Damon Dash. Dash is selling his share of the rapper's Rocawear for nearly $30 million, which is almost enough to numb the wounds of a friendship lost. [Page Six]
• Sopranos star Jamie-Lynn Siegler has split from her husband, AJ DiScala — and just in time for San Gennaro. [Gatecrasher]
• If we were the club promoter mentioned in this incredibly not-blind blind item, we'd probably ban Page Sixers from Bungalow 8. [Page Six]
• Is George Clooney banging a young stylist? Oh, the horror of mingling with the working class. [Lowdown (2nd item)]

Gossip Roundup: David Pecker Swaddles Schwarzenegger, Keeps Him Safe From Harm

Jessica — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 11:55:28 EDT

• American Media Inc. publisher David Pecker has been shelling out some hefty amounts of cash to suppress any negative coverage of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who had signed on executive editor of AMI's muscle mags. Good thing tabloids or politicians don't really depend on ethics, or else this just might be scandalous. [Page Six]
• Hip-hop mogul Damon Dash complains about overexposure and Vogue editor Anna Wintour skips a day at the tents in favor of the U.S. Open? HAS THE WORLD GONE MAD?! [Lowdown]
• And, predictably, the crunchy furries at PETA have directed their ire towards the fur-bedecked Vogue queen. Golly, it must be Hate Anna Week. Someone should have told us. [R&M]
• You may find this hard to believe, but Baby Phat designer and medicinal marijuana activist Kimora Lee Simmons behaved like an "ogre" backstage at her Saturday night runway show. [Page Six]
• Pussy-loving actor Elijah Wood adores the Elijah Wood is Very, Very Gay website as much as we do! For once, we are actually proud of a celebrity. [Scoop]

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Gawker — Mon, 05 May 2003 10:02:44 EDT

· Roc-A-Fella Records founder Damon Dash, apparently deciding he'd rather lose money than make it, is starting his own airline, and has already committed to retail space for the offices. [NY Daily News]
· Weatherman Al Roker's 15 year old daughter Courtney was caught smoking pot. [Ed. note—A teenager caught smoking pot...maybe if I say it out loud, it'll seem more scandalous...nope; didn't work.] [Page Six]
· Radar Editor Maer Roshan on Tina Brown: "Tina's a drag queen. She's pretty damn gay herself. She worked at Condé Nast—dealing with gay people wasn't exactly like a new, daunting experience for her! I wrote my term paper on Tina in college. She's an icon, you know?" [Page Six]