Sam Peel
Banned
The son of former Roc-A-Fella records music mogul, Damon “Dame” Dash, was arrested Tuesday for strangling his girlfriend in Chelsea, authorities said.
Damon Dash II, 22, was charged with misdemeanor assault and strangulation for allegedly squeezing his girlfriend’s neck as they argued on Sept. 22 in his West 16th Street apartment.
“They had an apparent dispute over sex,” a law enforcement source told The Post of Dash-the-younger and his girlfriend.
“She was visiting him at his apartment, he got violent with her, starts to punch her, slap her and shove her onto the bed, got on top of her, he grabs her by the throat and chokes her,” the source said.
They briefly reconciled but then had another fight, at which point the victim called the cops, the source said.
Dash climbed on top of her and “placed both of [his] hands around [her] neck and squeezed tightly,” to the point where she had trouble breathing, according to the misdemeanor complaint against him.
At his arraignment on Wednesday, Dash signed an order of protection barring him from any contact with his alleged victim. He was released without bail.
“He did get physically violent with her,” the source added. “She suffered bruises, a black eye and a cut lip.” Her neck was left with red marks, the complaint alleges.
Dash Jr. has had one previous arrest but details of that case have been sealed.
His dad has also been a regular in Manhattan’s courtrooms in recent years for paternity and creditor lawsuits.
just like his daddy
MEDIA MOGUL DAMON DASH
Dash has been accused of violence against women on several occasions. The Washington Post recently reported that when Dash was 16, a 14year-old girl at his upstate New York summer camp accused him of raping her. Dash says he was never accused of rape, just “sexual misconduct,” and that he was vindicated when a lawsuit and a related arrest warrant in the case never went anywhere. Between 1990 and 1996, cops were called on multiple occasions to quell “domestic disturbances” at the Long Island home Dash shared with Linda Williams, the mother of his eldest child, Damon II. Dash was arrested multiple times, at least one order of protection was granted, and police records indicate that Williams reported that she was injured; a caseworker who interviewed their then 6-year-old son noted that the boy said “he had seen his father hit his mother in the stomach,” and that “he was afraid his father was going to kill his mother.” Dash also refutes these charges, noting that he was awarded custody of the child after a bitter fight. Still, to many there seems to be a disturbing pattern to these accusations.
Hip Hop & Domestic Violence
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