{"id":8899,"date":"2025-12-04T00:45:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T00:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/daddy-yankee-hits-ex-manager-wife-with-royalties-theft-lawsuit\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T00:45:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T00:45:47","slug":"daddy-yankee-hits-ex-manager-wife-with-royalties-theft-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/daddy-yankee-hits-ex-manager-wife-with-royalties-theft-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Daddy Yankee Hits Ex-Manager, Wife With Royalties Theft Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n\tDaddy Yankee has brought a bombshell lawsuit accusing his former manager, Raphy Pina<\/strong>, and estranged wife Mireddys Gonz\u00e1lez<\/strong> of scheming to steal songwriting royalties during a nearly decade-long racketeering conspiracy.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe reggaeton star (Ram\u00f3n Ayala Rodr\u00edguez) is bringing civil claims under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, a federal organized crime statute often deployed against mobsters and gangs. The 107-page lawsuit accuses Pina, a veteran Latin music executive and founder of Pina Records, of plotting with Gonz\u00e1lez and other associates to fraudulently add Pina as a songwriter on Daddy Yankee\u2019s split sheets.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201c[Pina], with the assistance and acquiescence of co-defendants, systematically misappropriated publishing income,\u201d reads the legal complaint filed Saturday (Nov. 29). \u201cDefendants\u2019 conduct constituted a deliberate, sustained and coordinated attack on the integrity of plaintiffs\u2019 publishing operations.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDaddy Yankee alleges that Pina falsely made himself a co-author so he could receive royalties on more than a dozen of his songs back to 2015, including the Billboard<\/em> Hot Latin Songs chart entries \u201cLa Rompe Corazones,\u201d \u201cRunaway\u201d \u201cDe Vuelta Pa\u2019 La Vuelta\u201d and \u201cVuelve\u201d featuring Bad Bunny.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe lawsuit claims Pina was the \u201ccentral architect of the RICO enterprise\u201d and that Gonz\u00e1lez, who managed Daddy Yankee\u2019s business enterprises during more than 20 years of marriage, provided the \u201cadministrative backbone\u201d for falsifying the split sheets. The two allegedly got help from Pina\u2019s music industry mentor, Andres Coll-Fern\u00e1ndez, <\/strong>and lawyer Edwin Prado-Galarza<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\n\tDaddy Yankee filed for divorce from Gonz\u00e1lez in December 2024, and marriage dissolution proceedings are still ongoing. In the meantime, the singer has brought multiple legal actions against his estranged wife, alleging she\u00a0severely mismanaged\u00a0the finances of his label, El Cartel Records, and publishing company Los Cangris. Daddy Yankee\u00a0seized control\u00a0of the companies, and he says he discovered the \u201cchilling truth\u201d of Pina\u2019s royalty fraud during an ensuing financial audit.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe lawsuit claims that Pina also used the same scheme to steal royalties from other artists he managed. It adds that Pina, who has served prison time for gun possession, used threats of violence to \u201csilence and deter\u201d young and vulnerable artists from questioning his tactics.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cLeveraging his considerable height and strength, [Pina] cultivated an atmosphere of constant threat, ensuring that artists and associates remained compliant out of fear for their safety and well-being,\u201d wrote Daddy Yankee\u2019s lawyers.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe lawsuit seeks a court injunction to restore Daddy Yankee\u2019s full publishing rights, as well as financial damages of at least $3 million for the misappropriated royalties.<\/p>\n

\n\tPina, Coll-Fern\u00e1ndez and Prado-Galarza did not immediately return requests for comment on Wednesday (Dec. 3). Gonz\u00e1lez\u2019s attorney, Roberto Sueiro<\/strong>, told Billboard <\/em>that the claims are \u201call a fabrication\u201d created by Daddy Yankee to gain a tactical advantage in their divorce proceedings. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cDaddy Yankee wants a favorable split of the community property that comes from their 20-plus years marriage,\u201d Sueiro said. \u201cHe\u2019s trying to use the press to create a favorable atmosphere before that split takes place.\u201d<\/p>\n


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