The So So Def founder claims the music giant underpaid artists including Mariah Carey, Usher, Xscape, Bow Wow and Da Brat over decades.
Jermaine Dupri and his So So Def Recordings filed a lawsuit against Sony Music Entertainment in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday, July 7, seeking more than $18 million in damages and accusing the company of deliberately underpaying royalties across a 32-year business relationship.
The complaint, obtained and first reported by Billboard, names Mariah Carey, Usher, Kris Kross, Xscape, Bow Wow, Da Brat, Jagged Edge, J-Kwon, and Bone Crusher among the artists whose royalties Dupri says were “understated” by Sony. The suit also accuses the company of a “systemic pattern” of “contemptuous accounting practices” and alleges Sony hid certain royalties in separate accounting systems and amended old statements to conceal how much it had withheld.
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