Quote:Music Row veteran says singer, family dallied for months after committing to deal
“Celebrities should be required to pay their bills, just like anyone else,” reads the first line of a lawsuit filed by artist management company Cassetty Entertainment against former American Idol winner Scotty McCreery.
The lawsuit, filed in Davidson County Chancery Court last week, maintains that McCreery — pictured here with Cassetty in happier days — refuses to pay the new management company for services rendered.
Cassetty Entertainment, run by music industry veteran Todd Cassetty, signed McCreery as its first artist in October 2012. But Cassetty claims he was “strung along for months” as McCreery failed to officially memorialize the management agreement. The parties parted ways in April.
According to the lawsuit, Cassetty claims that McCreery, 19, offered to pay him 15 percent of all gross revenues. But McCreery's mother, Judy, stepped in and offered only two percent, the lawsuit claims.
Cassetty started managing McCreery after he was released from XIX Entertainment, the company he was contractually obligated to work after winning American Idol. Judy McCreery told Cassetty in an October 2012 email that Cassetty was “unofficially official” their new manager, according to the suit.
Cassetty started managing Scotty McCreery then but an official management agreement was never memorialized. The suit claims that the McCreerys kept assuring Cassetty that he would be paid at the “industry standard” of 15-20 percent of gross revenues. The lawsuit calls those claims “fraudulent and deceptive.”
Cassetty is asking for a money judgment including actual, consequential and punitive damages. Don Passman, a Los Angeles-based attorney representing McCreery, declined to comment on the case Monday afternoon.
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"McCreery failed to officially memorialize the management agreement"
i.e., I did work for McCreery even though I didn't have a signed agreement.
Rookie mistake.
How much could Scotty have made in six months? He's probably suing for projected gross revenues over the length of the unsigned contract.
