ABC’s ‘Superstar: Aaliyah’ documentary premiered on Wednesday. Fans were quick to react to the late R&B singer’s relationship with Damon Dash.
Aaliyah was in a relationship with the co-founder of Roc-A-Fella Records, Damon Dash, at the time of her death in August 2001. She was 22 years old. The One in a Million singer and some of her record company employees were on the aircraft that crashed fire shortly after takeoff at the Marsh Harbour Airport in Abaco Islands, Bahamas.
Aaliyah and Dash were not formally engaged. However, they had marriage on the cards, the producer said in multiple interviews after the singer’s death.
Aaliyah and Damon met in the summer of 2000 at a basketball game. She was 21 and he was 29 years old.
“We met at a basketball game, but that was her as ‘Aaliyah,”’ Damon Dash told Entertainment Tonight of Aaliyah’s fame.
“She had on a basketball jersey, and I just looked at her,” he recalls. “I was young, kind of, like an artist, just saw her as one.” Barry Klarberg, a mutual accountant, introduced them.
They connected again, this time model Natane Adcock played Cupid. The couple attended Diddy’s Fourth of July party on July 2, 2000. Their relationship moved quickly.
In May 2001, Aaliyah surprised Dash on his 30th birthday. She hosted a party in New York City. The next few months saw the two become ‘inseparable’, he said.
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Aaliyah spent most of her time at Damon’s mansion which he shared with Jay-Z.
“She was the best person I ever knew. … I never met a person like her in my life. Every day that we were together, we cherished. Every memory — every day was a special event, whether it was going to a store or going to a movie, or just sitting in a house. Wherever we were was like our own little party, in our own little world,” Damon told MTV News three days after Aaliyah’s death.
