The gloves are off! Kelly Clarkson and Brandon Blackstock’s divorce is getting messy after she claimed he and his father Narvel Blackstock’s administration firm defrauded her out of thousands and thousands of {dollars}.
The “Miss Unbiased” singer, 38, filed authorized paperwork with the California Labor Fee in October, alleging that Brandon, 43, and his Starstruck Administration firm defrauded her by charging her outlandish charges throughout her time with the staff.
In accordance with the paperwork, obtained by Us Weekly on Thursday, December 10, Clarkson claimed that her settlement with the administration firm was a “fraudulent and subterfuge gadget” that allowed her managers to carry out “unlawful providers” as brokers.
Kelly Clarkson and Brandon Blackstock. Trae Patton/NBC; AFF-USA.com/MEGA
The Voice coach alleged that Brandon and Narvel, 64, weren’t licensed within the state of California to be brokers, and due to this fact she desires to recoup all the cash she paid to the corporate throughout her 13 years by which they acted as her agent.
Us beforehand reported that Clarkson was countersuing the management company, claiming it had violated the California Labor Code. The October 20 submitting alleged that Starstruck was not correctly licensed when “procuring, providing, promising, or trying to obtain employment or engagements.”
The American Idol winner claimed that the corporate violated the Expertise Companies Act quite a few occasions and argued that every one agreements between the events needs to be “declared void and unenforceable,” together with a verbal settlement that requires 15 p.c fee on her gross earnings.
Clarkson’s countersuit got here after Narvel filed a lawsuit against the singer in September, saying she owed the agency $1.4 million in unpaid commissions.
The submitting alleged that the “Due to You” singer, who has been with the corporate since 2007, has not paid the entire fee for her work on The Kelly Clarkson Show and The Voice for 2020, which might add at the very least $5.4 million to her whole cash owed.
The authorized drama started three months after Clarkson filed for divorce from Brandon after practically seven years of marriage.
“I imply, it’s no secret. My life has been just a little little bit of a dumpster,” the Grammy winner mentioned in September throughout an interview on Sunday Today With Willie Geist. “Personally, it’s been just a little onerous the final couple months.”
Two months later, the discuss present host was awarded primary custody of her and Brandon’s two youngsters, River, 6, and Remington, 4. The estranged couple will share joint bodily and authorized custody of the kids, with Clarkson having main bodily custody in Los Angeles.
Brandon can also be father of daughter Savannah, 18, and son Seth, 13, from his earlier marriage to Melissa Ashworth.
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