LOS ANGELES () - Singer-actress Vanessa Hudgens of the made-for-kids TV attain "High School Musical" is being sued by a producer world Health Organization claims she reneged on a deal to parcel her pay with him after he helped make her a star.
In the lawsuit, filed on Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court, plaintiff Johnny Vieira accuses the 19-year-old performer and her manager-father, Greg Hudgens, of breach of contract and fraud, quest more than $27 meg in amends.
Hudgens' record label, the Walt Disney Co.-owned Hollywood Records, also is named as a defendant in the suit.
Vieira, wHO describes himself as a music producer "engaged in the business of discovering and developing artists in the music industry," claims he and Hudgens in agreement in 2005 to parcel equally in her advances, royalties and merchandising revenues.
That agreement was approved by a court, the courtship says.
But Vieira says he was dumped from Hudgens' management team soon subsequently she was cast in Disney's TV movie sensation "High School Musical."
According to the suit, they subsequently reached a colony under which Hudgens agreed to pay Vieira a percentage of her pay from her first trey albums under her solo recording take with Hollywood Records.
However, "it became clear that Hudgens and her new 'team' ... all directed by her don ... would hold every possible opportunity to deprive Vieira of the benefits to be derived from the settlement agreement," the lawsuit says.�
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