Fallen hip hop mogul Damon Dash suffered a bout of amnesia in court Friday testifying that he barely recalled a 2009 incident when he allegedly had his ex-girlfriend arrested on phony charges.
The Roc-a-Fella Records co-founder took the stand, donning jeans and a wrinkled buttoned-down shirt, and scowled throughout the legal grilling by the attorney for his former gal pal Linda Williams.
When asked if he remembered being in court with Williams in 2009 he answered, “I’ve been in court with her so much I wouldn’t be able to tell you specifically.”
Dash, 43, told the jury he went to cops because he “wanted protection from emotional abuse” by Williams when his father died in the spring of 2009. The harassment charges against Williams were tossed.
Williams, 49, a Long Island nursing student and mother of Dash’s son Damon “Boogie” Dash Jr., sued her ex in 2010 for $1 million for false arrest and malicious prosecution. Outside court Dash, who was named as a defendant in 22 civil suits in Manhattan courts since 2001, blasted the press for only focusing on the negative. The trial is expected to conclude on Monday.