‘Thug in My Life’ chart regular Rihanna has been ordered to pay a five figure fine this week, after she skipped legal depositions arranged by the accountants she claims mishandled her finances during her time with them.
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Upon filing a suit against David Berdon‘s Berdon LLP, the Pop Princess was required to sit down with the company- who house her former accountants- for a deposition, which would have seen her give an oral statement explaining why she was suing the company.
Originally scheduled for November 2012, the first deposition saw the star skip the meeting and subsequently skip three more, wasting the time and money the company had taken to set them up.
So, as to recoup the capital they lost because of her no-shows, Berdon called on the case’s judge to fine the star. Upon investigating the case, the judge sided with them and has now ordered the ‘A Girl Like Me‘ star to pay $47,050 to cover Berdon’s legal bills.
In adding to this, she has been required to attend a new deposition on Wednesday August 28th.
If she does not attend, she is likely to see her case thrown out by the court.
This case comes five years after she cut ties with business manager Patricia Jordan, reportedly blaming her for the ‘financial woes’ she faced following the release of 2007’s ‘Good Girl Gone Bad’.
Speaking at the time, Williams explained:
“It’s not my fault that she only has $20,000 to her name. I’m a professional Business Manager, I have a staff of more than a dozen, I have worked for many high-profile actors, musicians and multi-million dollar corporations.
Why would I steal from Rihanna? I showed her all the paperwork and tried to explain to her the circumstances but she wouldn’t listen. She called me all sorts of horrible names and stormed off. I now feel compelled to share with the world the background story as I will not allow my name to be slandered.
Def Jam doesn’t fund Rihanna properly, so Marc uses the money Rihanna makes from third-party endorsements and from tours to fund her album and music videos. I don’t want to disrespect Marc’s name. He is a fantastic manager and genuinely believes in Rihanna. But he uses her money to fund her future projects because he believes he can break her in the world market.
Her album sales are not nearly as close to her single sales and he knows that if she is only known as a singles artist she will only be as good as her last hit. Unfortunately, he didn’t inform his client and I’m receiving the brunt of it.”
Two years later, Rihanna dropped Jordan to sign with Jay Brown‘s Roc Nation, one year after the company had signed Brit-Pop songbird Rita Ora and announcing her arrival at the music group a month before the release of her fifth studio album, ‘Loud‘.
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‘Paying all these legal fines, still got mo’ money.’
So, miss Rihanna is being ordered to pay 47 thousand dollars (Which is nothing to her) for being late once again for something she started. LOL Black people are known to be late. But Damn Rihanna, you like 7 months late to a lawsuit you filled. What kinda ghetto s*** is this. Also, that person tried Rihanna saying she dont write music and/or is not an big album seller. LOL Speaking of that, last night after having passionate s** with S****** Blondey LOLOL. I started reseaching how in the hell is my grandmotha Miss Mariah Carey worth 500 million bucks. She barely tours & releases music. But then I saw how much Writers & Producers make chilllllddd. Rihanna you betta start writting some of those songs gurl. Not just fillers but the actual hits. Come to find out singers only make like 75 cents or less from album sales & like 20-25 cent or less from single sales (If thier not the soul writer & or producer) DAMN! Child, my grandmotha makes damn near $2.60 from her album sales alone. Then royalty checks from anyone covering her songs & playing them on the radio all over the world. Mimi gets paid. Daydream & Music Box had to have growsed Mimi around 100 million dollars in royalties before taxes of course. I hope you still worth something by the time your 40 Rihanna… Because I doubt you gonne be still selling out stadiums being late & s***. *Rolls Eyes & Goes Back To Sleep*
Great Read and even better to see that Rihanna is almost always compared to the Greats who came before her. Which
is always good because shes preparing herself to be just as great as Mariah the Legend, and since its Rihanna that you are writing so good about show many that there just has to be something this Rihanna has got that keep you and others so Inspired and Motivated.
Rihanna is Inspired to be like Mariah and Beyonce and who better for her to want to be like. Perhaps Rihanna is the only one who aspires to be one of the Greatest Artist to ever walk the earth, because it seem there is no one else who want to be like Mariah or Beyonce.
And there is Madonna and Marley that Rihanna Love too.
I can imagine her being one of them stars that will go bankrupt when she is older.
i don’t think so.
Older? Try very soon
Its not hard to imagine. We’re talking about football stars who go bankrupt in 10 yrs and they make 30 mil a yr . Rihanna only has 90mil (according to forbes) that doesn’t include her expenses (hair, makeup, clothing) so imagine how fast that can go
What’s the source?
Hard to believe boo boo?
Google it and choose one..
LOL how is Riherpes gonna afford that amount? H** better come crawling and bow down to the richest under 30 entertainer, SLAYdy GODga, for a loan.
GaGa can pay this with her petty cash!!
as much blood , gook and animal s*** lady gaga wears and you talk about Rihanna. I never said anything bad about gaga but I will drag that b****. keep Rihanna name out your mouth
ms. jordan? williams? and who’s marc? 3 people passing the ball. sneaky players. and years old paperwork. mosdef doctored crap. where to get originals when those guys managed it all. chance? no. 😆
What in the world does Rita Ora have to do with this!?
This is a horrible read, who wrote this s***!?
47k is like pocket change to that b**** probably.
Who Cares!?
1-2 days “work” if one roughs that?
It maybe pocket change now but that day is coming that she will be sued for much more with her lateness. With all that drinking Rih does, she is not watching who’s taking what.
This site is f****** tripping like Rihanna on that pencil D***.
Rofl. Who remembers when she accused her ex- business manager of stealing from her and the woman ended up spilling the TEAAA on that 360.
It didn’t even sound like a 360. It sounded like a label who wouldn’t pay for her s*** because she wasn’t living up to their expectations. Just like Jive wouldn’t pay for Ciara’s s*** so she had to finance her own videos.
All i have to say is
I LOVE RIH, and
‘who cares how u haters feel
SHE STILL GOT HER MONEY’
#just47tho
#bankruptmyass
#navy4life
Kiiii TGJ just exposed your a**.
So La Perra is a troll. Who would have guessed?
Po’ dat.
LMFAO. Poor La Perra.
So all the time she’s been partying she was supposed to be in court? This girl isn’t serious about life.
Ri aint naturally bout dat money making life like others. Even though she thinks she is.
1. I love Grape Juice for naming and shaming the trolls.
2. Rihanna better take a business 101 class this summer.
What kind of lies! Rihanna was at ROC before Rita not after.
If you knew anything about your fave you’d know that Rita was there first and then Rihanna came later and copied everything Rita did.
Lies.
So Rita was there prior to 2005? And released her debut album SEVEN years later? Lol! 😆
I know the navy might not like this. But rihanna has to take business advice from BEYONCE and lady gaga who don’t make as much album as her, but have more cash$$$.#TRUTH
No lies were detected.
So she only had $20K before GGGB came out?
That’s a bit shocking tbh..
Broke ass.
No… FOLLOWING Good Girl Gone Bad.
“following the release of 2007′s ‘Good Girl Gone Bad’”
..
Yeah following means after honey.
H20 didn’t finish school.
Following the release means back when it hadn’t sold any copy yet …
But anyway she’s much richer now, it’s not that serious …
No lol. It just means after it came out boo.
k.
This gave me all kinds of life- Yassss you preachin these truths! XO
Oh Rihanna.
Why did Pepsi’s sales flop because of Beyonce.
What kinda fiction?
lol
Why does Rihanna always get dropped for damaging brands? Why did Chanel publicly deny her?
The ironic thing about Rihanna. She does the most boasting (yes we all know people like Lady G and Beyonce have boasted through MUSIC aswell) but Ri is notorious for being cocky. She is always talking about money and s*** when she is the one with the least impressive stats considering how much work she does. And we all know her dodgy history with money making. If she was a bit more humble people wouldn’t drag her for being a label puppet, s**** so much!
thank you for this. she is beyond cocky. always posting her starts and free designer stuff she receives. i can support someone that is not humbled. always talking about when will your fave do this and when will they do that. i can’t with her especially when she’s not that talented
Did the Navy not know Rita was signed to RN before Rihanna?
The fact that Nivea dropped her like hot cakes says it all.
What deals does Lana have?
I feel as though rihanna sued those lawyers without having any proof they stole from her. If she had a strong case she would have shown up. I don’t think she’ll be there at the next hearing and the case will be thrown out.
You are not invincible and above the law Rihanna. This a fine example of how her ego is getting in the way now.
Damn so for all the millions she earns, she sees about 2% of it…lol I told yall
Paying for airplay,funding albums every year,different law suits,and paying for tickets to sale to radio stations to fill up stadiums,and purchasing albums to give away in contest have come back to hurt her. The truth is there are nurses and plumbers that make more money than alot of these artist per year. You just wouldn’t think so with all the free designer things the get to advertise or the image they portray. I guess that 360 deal we learned about in 09 just won’t let up lol.
At least Beyonce is really worth her millions and gaga has made some money back after going broke after the first tour.
How much are you worth, bum? 😆
“It’s not my fault that she only has $20,000 to her name.”
SHE’S ABOUT THAT LIFE… Homeless life.
KING gilberto!!
Lol
homeless? doesn’t she have that 4 mil crib in hollywood? she might be hungry. but you know howto make money as a women in the worst case. 😆
Lmao wow
@h20 do you have Facebook?
No I really hate Facebook!
Hey everyone, la perra is not a troll that was my comment (just….moi) but it was posted under la perra’s username. Tgj is a mess , i hope this doesn’t get posted on another persons username and i am sure it has happened to some of you before
#behonest
#thanks
It has! Other people’s login info tends to pop up on mobile devices smh
No boo boo, you are a troll and you were exposed. Don’t make them post your ip address on here like they did to that other broad.
What kind of exposure?
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LMFAO. YAAAAAAASS. Expose ha!
@ThatGrapeJuiceStaff Omg. Omg Omg. You walk among us.
You think using the word five figure gonna make it bigger than 47.000?
Thats 5 figures dumbass. 6 figures = 6 digits 5 figures = 5 digits
Lmao dumb broke flop h**… I hope you lose all your money you demonic w****.
The ppl w/ the most money don’t publish their earnings… Oprah doesn’t even do it every yr. Why u think all these new ppl are on the list? bc the real billionaires don’t have to publish their stats. Case & point. Baby (Cash Money) they had 100mil in assets but he’s not gonna publish all the illegal, untaxed street money he makes so next time y’all wanna talk about ’90mil’ remember that doesn’t include her expenses like hair, nails, clothing (which she loves) , etc. Although I doubt she’s THAT broke (20,000)
A lot of her clothing is FREE boo. It’s all about promotion 🙂 And she was supposedly worth $20k in 2007 because the label refused to pay for her stuff. That’s why Tierra Marie was dropped.
Jay Z signed Rihanna to Def Jam in 2005! ROC NATION DIDN’T EVEN EXIST UNTIL 2008! She automatically transferred over to Roc Nation (management, not label) after GGGB was released. Rihanna was there FIRST, no matter how y’all try to flip it. Rihanna is 25 years old and made 43 million so far this year. Someone LIED and said that Beyonce was making 80 million at the age of 25, but she was actually making around the same…so Rih is on the right track. All of these b****** are richer than we will EVER be. I really don’t give a f*** about their bank accounts. Even in 2007 the b**** had more money than most of us 😆
You’re right Beyonce was 26 when she made $80 million, not 25. Then she made $175 million in the following 2 years.
Rihanna is very successful, and a very good money-maker… No need to argue with haters about that!
Oh
I see Samantha added a source. The NY post………. who’s source is TMZ. You tried.
And at the end of the day this little lady from a far away land is paying so many bills for the Blogs and media and is still compared to Beyonce and Mariah more then any other artist we see or know, why is that?The power in her name.
Publicity Publicity.
How you ’bout that life’ but when the issue is of YOUR money ass is ghost?
I just can’t with Ms. Riri, the fake thuggery and the real ignorance.
Her dumbass thought lawsuits were magical Lucky Charms. You just file one and all the coins comes spillin out not knowing about evidence and proof. I imagine someone eventually explained it to her dumbass and she realized if she showed up she’d look even more simple minded.
Rihanna better watch it, real talk a lot of people are making money off her and they’ve set up the contracts in such a way even if she’s starving onthe street their pockets will still get filled. She NEEDS to be more careful or she will end up broke wondering why.