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You knew that was coming, didn’t you? It was only a matter of time when Rachel Roy was going to leave Damon Dash. He had so many financial problems, so much beef and bitterness with Jay-Z and the industry, can you blame her for being the long suffering wife (ok, four years isn’t that long) of a megalomaniac? I wonder how he’s going to pay for alimony and child support, since everyone is reporting that he is broke? And when will he break down and admit it?

“Roc-A-Fella Records and Rocawear co-founder Damon Dash has been slapped with divorce papers by wife Rachel Roy, the Daily News has learned.

The stunning fashion designer piled onto Dash’s already sizable stack of lawsuits when she filed for divorce from her husband of four years this month in Manhattan Supreme Court.

Ed Hayes, a lawyer for Roy, declined comment, and a Dash spokeswoman did not return calls or e-mails.

An electronic record of the case says the divorce is for “nonmonetary relief” and should be resolved by February.

Dash and Roy, who put her own name on a women’s fashion line, got hitched in Mexico in January 2005. They met when Roy was working at Rocawear and have two daughters.

The breakup is the latest legal mess for the has-been hip-hop titan, whose empire – which he once pegged at “about $50 million” in a New York magazine profile – has crumbled under massive debt, bad business deals and one suit after another.

The fall has been a spectacular one for Dash, who sipped Champagne on a yacht in Jay-Z’s video for “Big Pimpin’” – then emptied his bottle of bubbly onto bikini-clad beauties in a hot tub.

“He’s broke, he’s got nothing left,” a source said.

Dash debuted last year as a theater producer with the “Hip-Hop Monologues,” an Off-Broadway account of the life of his latest protégé, rapper Jim Jones.

The production is set to resume performances tonight at 37 Arts in Manhattan.

While he may have been short on cash, Dash wasn’t short on confidence when he hyped the show in New York magazine and vowed to make a splashy return to the music business.

“And when I come back, I’m gonna change the economy as well,” he said.” (source)

Translation: “Nonmonetary relief”, he’s broke! How many women or men do you know use that  reason to file for divorce? That is embarrassing as hell!  While I’ve always heard of “irreconcilable differences” as the reason the people file for divorce, this takes the cake right here!! Can you imagine using that phrase in everyday life? That would be the new way of telling someone that they were broke, right?

Now I’m not saying she’s a golddigger, but……..well, you know the rest.

Dame Dash better take those ticket sales from Jim Jones’ play and pay those lawyer fees or something.