Taylor Swift has been hit with a lawsuit by her former manager. Dan Dymtrow has filed a suit against the 20-year-old country star in New York’s federal court, claiming that she owed him millions of dollars in commissions for playing a key role in building her career before signed contract with Nashville-based Big Machine Records.
Dan claimed that he was supposedly been paid between 5% to 10% commission from Taylor’s music career. His attorney Fernando Pinguelo detailed that Scott and Andrea Swift, the parents of the “Mine” singer, delayed signing the recording contract with Dan after he introduced her to Big Machine CEO Scott Borchetta. They later fired him to avoid paying him his commissions.
The former manager, who has repped Britney Spears also accused Taylor’s parents of conspiring with Big Machine CEO Scott Borchetta to dump him. As proof, his lawyer cites an email written by Scott Swift to Scott Borchetta that allegedly read, “Enough with the Dymtrow. You asked me to break both his legs, wrap him in chains and throw him in the lake. I did.”
Taylor’s lawyer, Paul LiCalsi of Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp, has since come to the country crooner’s defense. The attorney argued that the “Tim McGraw” hitmaker, who was at the time a minor, has legally disaffirmed the deal in 2005 because Dan failed to obtain the required court approval of his management contract with her.
“For him to claim that her success and her major contracts were procured by him is ludicrous,” Paul said. “And even if there were some merit to his claims, paying him on the contract would defeat the whole purpose of the law in New York, which is to protect minors who sign contracts.”
Both sides have been quietly battling since 2007 when Dan filed a suit against Taylor and her parents, claiming they were in breach of a management contract for only paying him $10,000 for his efforts. So far, there is no court date set after attorneys for Taylor and her ex-manager filed a joint letter with the court on Wednesday, October 6 to share documents both sides hope will provide evidence to prove their claims.
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