Dame Dash fights $550,000 sale of his life rights in bankruptcy court

The Roc-A-Fella Records co-founder wants to protect his private memories and avoid being forced to cooperate with the company buying his life story.

Dame Dash is facing a legal challenge regarding the sale of his life rights. The Roc-A-Fella Records co-founder is now arguing that the $550,000 deal should not require his cooperation or give a buyer access to his private memories. Dash, who filed for bankruptcy in September 2025, has previously faced disputes over ownership of his work.

Dash’s attorney, Mark S. Roher, filed an objection in bankruptcy court Friday (Oct. 23), two days after the winning bid was announced. Complex reported that Roher raised three concerns about what the buyer, Everlasting Films, LLC, could acquire under the agreement.

Among them, he asked that the property Dash acquired after his September 2025 bankruptcy filing be excluded from the sale. He also sought assurances that Dash would not have to communicate with, assist or otherwise participate in projects involving the purchaser.

Without those protections, Roher argued, Dash could be subjected to “potentially a lifetime of involuntary servitude to the purchaser.”

The attorney further sought to exclude Dash’s memories, experiences and thought processes that had not been recorded, transcribed or otherwise expressed before he filed for bankruptcy.

Everlasting Films won the auction with a $550,000 bid for exclusive worldwide rights to Dash’s life story. The package also includes around 100 hours of video footage, photographs, memorabilia and rights to an unreleased documentary or film project in development. The proceeds, however, are intended for creditors rather than Dash.

If Everlasting Films fails to complete the purchase, the backup bidder, Doug Peters, could acquire the rights for $500,000.

The bankruptcy trustee, Traci K. Stevenson, began seeking approval to auction the rights in August. She argued that Dash’s public profile and history with Roc-A-Fella Records gave the rights commercial value, even though he had not listed them as assets in his bankruptcy filing.

Dash reported roughly $25 million in debts and $4,350 in personal assets when he filed in September 2025.