Attorney for Fat Joe’s former hype man arrested, accused of hitting process server with his vehicle
A lawyer representing the former rapper Fat Joe on Wednesday was arrested on Wednesday, accusing him of a servant of operations of his car in New York City.
The New York City Police Administration said that lawyer, Tirion Blackburn, 40, was detained on Wednesday morning and seized the attack. BlackBurn did not immediately respond to the NBC News request for comment.
The arrest is the latest in the back and forth between Fat Joe, his real name is Joseph Antonio Cartagina, and his former man for his noise “Ta” Dixon and Dixon’s lawyer, Blackburn.
According to Pat Joe’s lawyer, Joe Takobina, everything began on March 23 when Dixon and Blackburn gave a rapper to the request to obtain money for being a “ghost writer and a non -reliable singer” on some FAT JOE songs.
FAT JOE ignored the demands, but on April 21, BlackBurn and Dixon sent a follow -up letter to the request threatening to file a lawsuit not only for unpaid wages, but for other allegations including rape, forced labor, sex and fraud – all allegations are called Takobina “false and super” and “with an explicit promotion of truth or judgment.”
As a result, Fat Joe filed a civil lawsuit against Dixon and Blackburn in April, claiming blackmail, defamation and deliberate abuse of emotional distress.
When the operation servant went to hand these papers to Blackburn, he claimed that the lawyer hit him with his car, as Takobina said.
A judicial order was issued to arrest Blackburn on Thursday, according to Takobina. On the same day, Blackburn and Dixon A federal lawsuit worth $ 20 million was filed against Fat Joe in The American Provincial Court of the southern region of New York.
This lawsuit claimed that the rapper forced Dixon to engage in thousands of sexual work with women, as he claimed that he was getting low salaries, and denied the credits of writing songs and threats.
Tacopina previously told NBC News that these allegations were “full manufacturing” designed to damage the reputation of the rapper.
“The arrest of Tirion Blackburn is not surprising to me – it is just another example of his malicious style and the manipulation of misconduct recently to the light,” Takobina said in a statement on Wednesday.
“Blackburn is an embarrassment for the legal profession, and it is a shame that monitors it uses the court system to protect its extortion. This is exactly the reason that Mr. Cartagina filed a lawsuit against Blackburn and his client Tirans Dixon in April because he knew that they were intending to try to hear it by collecting easy lies.” “Today’s arrest is just a first step, but I am sure that my client’s name will be wiped out of all these lies and Blackburn will be brought to justice once and forever.”
BlackBurn has represented high -ranking agents in the past. In February 2024, Lay a lawsuit on behalf of the product accused, Didi Lille Rodney. In this case, Rodney Lille accused combs of sexual harassment and drugs and threatening him. Comes’s lawyers denied these allegations.
