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Fat Joe‘s ex-hypeman just lost the lawyer who’s been driving his $20 million case.
AllHipHop’s Grouchy Greg Watkins was first to report that Tyrone Blackburn planned to walk away from Terrance Dixon’s lawsuit, and that reporting just checked out.
Blackburn filed a sworn declaration this week asking a federal judge to let him quit as Dixon’s attorney. He’s citing a non-waivable conflict of interest along with real fear for his own safety.
The declaration describes the morning the police arrived at his Brooklyn home and law office to arrest him last summer.
Blackburn says he watched his mother’s reaction to the knock at the door before sunrise. “I watched my mother’s face when she heard the knock at the door, and I watched the tears run down her face,” he wrote.
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Blackburn says that image is burned into him permanently, and he blames a case that two separate grand juries ultimately refused to sustain. A judge dismissed the first indictment in May, and a second grand jury declined to charge him in June.
Before any of that, Blackburn claims he got a heads-up from an unlikely source. He says a reporter called him about an active warrant before police or prosecutors ever reached out. He tried to verify the warrant through contacts at the district attorney’s office and came up empty.
The declaration also raises questions about the man who came to Blackburn’s home that same year.
Blackburn says the process server, who claimed to work as a licensed private investigator for The Hunt Group LLC, had no active license on file. State records show a documented gap of thirteen months, Blackburn says.
Blackburn also claims the sole police witness against him carried his own disciplinary record, including a prior guilty plea tied to his own child. He argues that history should have mattered to the grand jury that heard his case.
Blackburn’s filing also flags an email sent to the prosecutor, timed the evening before he was set to testify before the grand jury.
He says the message originated with Fat Joe’s legal team and pushed materials meant to work against him. Blackburn calls that contact improper and says it never should have reached the prosecutor’s desk.
Blackburn was arrested that June after allegedly striking a process server with his car, according to TMZ.
Fat Joe’s team has denied any wrongdoing and has repeatedly called Dixon’s underlying allegations fabricated. Fat Joe’s attorneys have also accused Blackburn of missing deadlines and stalling the case for months.
The case dates back to April 2025, when Fat Joe first sued Dixon and Blackburn, accusing them of extortion. Dixon then countersued for $20 million, alleging years of abuse and exploitation that Fat Joe has repeatedly denied.
Blackburn now states plainly that he considers any courtroom encounter with Fat Joe’s legal team unsafe.
“I regard any physical proximity to [Fat Joe’s] counsel of record and their retained agents as unsafe,” he wrote. He adds that he doesn’t trust them not to “orchestrate another retaliatory action” against him.
Blackburn has filed three new civil suits, targeting Fat Joe’s lawyer, TMZ’s parent company and the law firm he blames for the ambush.
