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Tuesday, October 17, 2000
Christina sues manager
Christina Aguilera is suing her former manager.
On Friday, the pop superstar filed a fraud and breach of fiduciary duty lawsuit against Steven Kurtz, Allstar reports.
Kurtz started managing Christina when she was 17. In the lawsuit, he is accused of having "improper, undue, and inappropriate influence over [Christina's] professional activities".
He is also accused of getting Christina to establish Kurtz as her only personal manager through a signed agreement in 1999.
The agreement included a clause that gave Kurtz 20 percent of all "commissionable income" Christina earned.
The arrangement also allowed Kurtz to "associate other management professionals of his choice to assist in providing services to [Christina] and represented such association would not require [Christina] to pay any additional monies".
Kurtz hired his father, Normand Kurtz and Katrina Sirdofsky, his business partner as two "management professionals" he could work with.
According to Christina's lawsuit, Sirdofsky was paid $4,000 a week in addition to some of the 20 percent commission Kurtz was making.
A paragraph of the lawsuit reads: "The true facts are that Kurtz did not place [Christina's] interest above his own; did not act fairly and honestly in protecting [Aguilera's] rights and interests; did not advise [Christina] independently of his own interests; took actions which inured to his own benefit; and took actions adverse to [Christina's] interests."
Christina is suing Kurtz, his management company, Marquee Management for fraud and Kurtz and Sirdofsky for breach of fiduciary duty.
-- AllPop
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