{"id":4632,"date":"2025-03-11T22:07:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T22:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/daddy-yankee-sues-wife-plus-jay-z-taylor-swift-more-music-law-news\/"},"modified":"2025-03-11T22:07:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T22:07:13","slug":"daddy-yankee-sues-wife-plus-jay-z-taylor-swift-more-music-law-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/daddy-yankee-sues-wife-plus-jay-z-taylor-swift-more-music-law-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Daddy Yankee Sues Wife, Plus Jay-Z, Taylor Swift & More Music Law News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n\tThis is The Legal Beat, a weekly newsletter about music law from Billboard Pro, offering you a one-stop cheat sheet of big new cases, important rulings and all the fun stuff in between.<\/em><\/p>\n

\n\tThis week: Daddy Yankee sues his ex-wife for $250 million; Jay-Z\u2019s dispute with his former accuser and her lawyer goes on; prosecutors say Taylor Swift tickets were stolen and resold by hackers; and much more.<\/em><\/p>\n

\n\t\tTHE BIG STORY: Daddy Yankee Goes Back To Court<\/strong>\t<\/h2>\n

\n\tDaddy Yankee<\/a>\u2019s legal war with ex-wife Mireddys Gonz\u00e1lez isn\u2019t over yet.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe pair finalized their divorce last month, but in a lawsuit filed last week in Puerto Rico, the reggaet\u00f3n superstar (Ram\u00f3n Luis Ayala Rodr\u00edguez) accused her and her sister Ayeicha Gonz\u00e1lez Castellanos of mismanaging two of his companies to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cMireddys and Ayeicha \u2026 proceeded to concentrate in themselves a greater power than authorized and, together, made negligent and selfish decisions that were detrimental to both the companies and [Daddy Yankee] in his personal capacity and as an artist,\u201d the star\u2019s lawyers wrote.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe lawsuit follows, and often echoes, the allegations Yankee made in December when he sought an injunction against Gonz\u00e1lez \u2013 namely that the two women had withdrawn $100 million from his companies\u2019 bank accounts without authorization. Now, Yankee claims that after regaining control of the companies, his team discovered many new irregularities, including the \u201cdisappearance\u201d of key records.<\/p>\n

\n\tFor all the details, go read the full story from Billboard<\/em>\u2019s Griselda Flores.<\/p>\n

\n\t\tOther top stories this week\u2026<\/strong>\t<\/h3>\n

\n\tFIGHT GOES ON \u2013<\/strong> Jay-Z<\/a>\u2019s rape accuser is standing by her story, according to court documents filed last week \u2014 directly contradicting a recent lawsuit in which the superstar claimed the woman had admitted to fabricating the allegations. Later in the week, the star\u2019s lawyers filed sworn statements from private investigators to whom the accuser allegedly recanted, and suggested that she and her lawyer should sit for depositions.<\/p>\n

\n\tHACKED TICKETS<\/strong> \u2013 Members of a \u201ccybercrime crew\u201d stole more than 900 tickets to the Taylor Swift<\/a> Eras Tour and other events and then resold them for more $635,000 in illegal profit, according to charges handed down by New York prosecutors. The tour, which wrapped in December with a record-shattering haul of more than $2 billion in face-value ticket sales over a two-year run, spawned an infamously pricy resale market \u2013 something the accused fraudsters were allegedly able to exploit.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cFLOWERS\u201d UPDATE<\/strong> \u2013 Miley Cyrus<\/a> seems unlikely to immediately escape a copyright lawsuit filed over allegations that her Grammy-winning \u201cFlowers\u201d infringed the Bruno Mars<\/a> song \u201cWhen I Was Your Man.\u201d At a court hearing, a Los Angeles federal judge indicated that would likely deny a motion to dismiss the case filed last year by attorneys for Cyrus.<\/p>\n

\n\tSHEERAN CASE AT SCOTUS<\/strong> \u2013 The legal battle over whether Ed Sheeran<\/a>\u2019s \u201cThinking Out Loud\u201d infringed Marvin Gaye<\/a>\u2018s \u201cLet\u2019s Get It On\u201d has reached the U.S. Supreme Court. In a petition for certiorari filed last week, a company that owns a stake in the rights to Gaye\u2019s 1973 song urged the justices to overturn a November ruling by a lower appeals court that rejected the lawsuit, arguing that \u201cthe rights of thousands of legacy musical composers and artists\u201d were at stake in the case.<\/p>\n

\n\tANTITRUST SHOWDOWN<\/strong> \u2013 A lyrics service called LyricFind filed an antitrust lawsuit against Musixmatch, claiming that the larger rival has reached an exclusive licensing deal with Warner Music Group (WMG) that\u2019s \u201cunprecedented in the music industry\u201d and is aimed at securing an illegal monopoly for providing lyrics to streamers like Spotify.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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