Singer Ricky Martin is facing a lawsuit from his ex-manager Rebecca Drucker, who represented the Puerto Rican from 2014 to 2018 and from May 2020 to April 2022, for which he is seeking $3 million from the artist (slightly less than $2,900,000 million euros) in unpaid commissions. The manager filed the lawsuit in a court in Los Angeles, USA, last Wednesday.
The artist’s former right-hand man claims in her complaint that she protected the Livin’ la Vida Loca singer from the consequences of his “reckless indiscretions”. “He did it not only because he was his manager, but also because he thought Martin was his dear friend,” read the brief submitted by his attorneys and accessed by Entertainment Tonight.
In the same document, Drucker explains why he decided to leave his position as the singer’s manager. The complaint said she worked in “a toxic environment” and alluded to a “particularly ugly” incident in Dubai in 2018 involving Ricky Martin and José Vega, the artist’s choreographer and right-hand man, to which led her to resign from his post.
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After months of Martin begging for her return, according to Drucker’s complaint, the manager decided to return and give their professional relationship “another chance” in 2020. However, she assures that she found out that the life of the five Grammys Latino winner is “chaotic.” “Although Martin’s career has thrived since he rehired Rebecca as his manager in May 2020, she has been forced to deal with a whole host of Martin’s personal issues, such as the nanny he hired to look after his sons To take care of [tiene cuatro junto a su marido, el pintor sirio Jwan Yosef: los gemelos alentino y Matteo, Lucia y Renn]among other things, for non-payment of taxes and his drug abuse,” the lawsuit specifies.
Another allegation that the former manager of the Murder of Gianni Versace actor makes in his defense is that he took action to “save Martin’s career.” In September 2020, the Puerto Rican received a letter from a renowned attorney threatening him with a lawsuit that could have ended his career had Drucker not led the entire process, hired renowned attorneys and dropped the lawsuit, which never saw the light of day saw , according to the report of the former manager, who does not give any further details.
In the document, which was presented to the Los Angeles court, another detail of the agreement reached between the two parties is the salary increase that the manager requested in 2021 after the representative wanted to leave her market stall. An agreement that consisted of charging commissions of 10% compared to the 5% he had already received.
For their part, Ricky Martin and his representatives did not want to comment on this for the time being. The singer is in the middle of filming and releasing a new single from his Pausa album, which premiered in 2020 and won the Latin Grammy for Best Pop Vocal Album. Also, the actor will be one of the protagonists of Mrs. American Pie, a new Apple TV+ series starring Kristen Wiig, Alison Janney and Laura Dern.