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Fat Joe is no longer facing allegations of rape, human trafficking, and other heinous acts in a lawsuit from his former employee.
On Thursday, March 26, Terrence "T.A." Dixon and his attorney Tyrone Blackburn submitted an amended complaint against Joe amid their ongoing legal dispute. In the updated legal documents reviewed by iHeartRadio, Blackburn strays away from Dixon's false narrative that he witnessed the Terror Squad rapper engage in sexual activity with underage girls and smuggle them across state lines. Instead, he focuses on the allegations regarding Dixon's financial dispute with Joe, which is what originally sparked their feud.
Dixon and Blackburn filed their $20 million lawsuit last summer. In the original complaint, Dixon alleged Joe forced him to have sex with women in front of others, underpaid him for his work as a hypeman, refused to give him songwriting credits, and hid royalties and backend payments. Fat Joe denied all the allegations through his attorney, Jose Tacopina, and doubled down in a brutally honest statement he shared to social media.
"I've never let anyone on the streets extort me, so how would I ever let a crooked attorney and a coward ex-hype man extort me?? I'm from the Bronx!" Joe said in his statement. "Mr. Tyrone Blackburn attorney at law since you want the clout, we will finish you in court. The time of lawyers using their law license as a badge to extort people and destroy families with no evidence is over!! I'm not the one!! You've messed with the wrong one this time!!"
Dixon initially made the salacious allegations about Joe in a series of social media posts. After the claims went viral, the New York native filed a defamation lawsuit against Dixon and Blackburn. In the lawsuit, Joe explained that he gave Dixon compensation, including luxurious travel and touring opportunities. Their partnership, which began in 2006, ended without any issues in 2019. Joe didn't hear anything about payment for six years before Dixon claimed that he should've been paid more for his work as a "ghostwriter."
Jose Tacopina sent Blackburn a cease-and-desist and claimed Blackburn's actions were part of "a criminal extortion scheme orchestrated by an attorney who a federal judge recently condemned for abusing the court system to harass and pressure defendants."
"Mr. Cartagena will not be intimidated by fabricated claims, lies about witnesses, or shameless threats," Tacopina said. "We are taking immediate legal action to expose this fraudulent scheme and we will hold all parties responsible fully accountable.”