Andra Day Says Ex-Manager Stole $1.6M & Left Her Facing Eviction, He Claims She’s Withholding Money

Andra Day and her manager of much than a decennary are dramatically parting ways with a brace of dueling caller lawsuits, each accusing the different of hoarding much than their just stock of royalty payments.

Day (Cassandra Monique Batie) began moving with manager Jeff Evans in 2010, 5 years earlier the occurrence of her debut Grammy-nominated album, Cheers to the Fall, and its breakout single, “Rise Up.” The 2 remained successful concern unneurotic for years, but their narration deteriorated implicit a bid of fiscal disputes that person present ended up successful court.

Evans was the archetypal to sue, claiming successful a ailment submitted connected Monday (Oct. 6) successful Los Angeles tribunal that Day is refusing to grant declaration provisions that entitle him to a 40% royalty connected her publishing and a 20% committee connected different profits.

The Evans suit alleges that Day has withheld this wealth since 2024. He wants a justice to state that he’s owed a chopped of Day’s publishing advances from Kobalt, which supposedly person totaled $1.5 cardinal implicit the past 2 years, arsenic good arsenic backend payments from her acting relation successful the Netflix movie The Deliverance.

“Plaintiffs are informed and judge and, based upon specified accusation and belief, allege that plaintiffs are owed a minimum of $850,000 arsenic of the day of the complaint,” constitute Evans’ lawyers Edwin McPherson and Brian Caplan.

Day, however, tells a precise antithetic communicative successful her ain suit filed against Evans connected Tuesday (Oct. 7). She says her archetypal declaration giving Evans 40% of her royalties was “exploitative,” and that some that statement and her 20% committee woody expired successful 2023.

According to Day, the existent contented is that Evans has been “caught red-handed stealing” from her. The vocalist says Evan bled her adust by misappropriating a $600,000 signaling money from her label, Warner Records, and stealing much than $1 cardinal worthy of royalties connected some her compositions and maestro recordings.

“Evans abused his relation arsenic a fiduciary to scam Day with blindless greed,” writes Day’s lawyer James Sammataro. “He siphoned truthful overmuch wealth from Day — a quadruple-platinum hitmaker and Golden Globe Best Actress victor — that helium near her facing eviction, incapable to wage the monthly minimum connected her recognition paper indebtedness and without capable funds to tour.”

Day’s suit says that arsenic of this past spring, Evans had stolen astatine slightest $1.6 cardinal from her. She claims a fuller probe is required to untangle the “web of deceit” woven by her manager and find precisely however overmuch she’s owed from his assorted “swindling sleights.”

Sammataro declined to remark connected the dueling allegations connected Tuesday. Evans’ lawyers did not instantly instrumentality a petition for comment.