Fat Joe watched opposing lawyer Tyrone Blackburn land in fresh legal danger after a federal judge threatened him with contempt over a filed deposition.

The move reopened one of the ugliest fronts in the rapper’s long fight with his former hype man.

The trouble started July 8 when Blackburn attached a deposition transcript to his motion to withdraw from Terrance Dixon’s case. The document is a sworn statement from a grown woman who claims Fat Joe sexually abused her when she was 13 years old.

Fat Joe has flatly denied that allegation and every other, calling it a scheme to extort him.

Blackburn dropped the transcript straight onto the public docket without notifying Fat Joe’s attorneys or obtaining a court order protecting it.

Fat Joe’s lawyer Joe Tacopina moved immediately to strike the material and lock it under seal. U.S. Magistrate Judge Jennifer Willis sealed the entire docket entry that same day.

Willis then ordered Blackburn to show cause in writing why he shouldn’t be held in contempt for breaking the protective order.

That order keeps deposition transcripts confidential for 30 days after counsel receives the final copy. She noted that Fat Joe’s side never got notice of the deposition and only learned about it when the filing hit.\

The judge also flagged the irony, since Blackburn recently moved for sanctions, accusing Fat Joe’s team of leaking a transcript under that same order.

The court shot that claim down before he planned to walk away from the case anyway. He answered the contempt threat a day later with a long letter defending the filing.

Blackburn argued that the protective order only covers discovery material, so it doesn’t apply to a statement from a woman who came forward on her own. He also fought the sealing, leaning on Second Circuit rules that favor public access to court records.

None of the claims have been proven, and a judge already referred Blackburn to the grievance committee earlier this year.

Dixon sued Fat Joe for $20 million in 2025, according to NBC News, then quietly dropped his most explosive claims months later. Blackburn has since stacked up contempt findings, an arrest and accusations of fake AI citations across this same fight.

Now he’s scrambling to protect his law license while the case keeps swallowing him whole.

Blackburn’s written response to the contempt threat is due July 15.