Brandon Blackstock and Kelly Clarkson. Matt Baron/Shutterstock
Kelly Clarkson’s ex-partner, Brandon Blackstock, is combating back from the singer’s latest lawsuit.
A single thirty day period soon after Clarkson, 41, alleged in a lawsuit that she ought to be awarded extra than the $2.6 million that a California labor commissioner ruled Blackstock, 47, owed her, the American Idol winner’s ex is now requesting the case be dismissed.
In accordance to court files obtained by Men and women on Monday, April 15, Blackstock and his administration organization, Starstruck Administration, deny “each and each individual allegation” elevated by the pop celebrity.
Blackstock and his lawful crew argue that the lawsuit should really be dismissed because the ruling earlier created by the labor commissioner in November 2023 “is binding on Clarkson.”
Because she did not “file a see of charm in just 10 days” from when the final decision was made, Blackstock and his attorneys declare in court docket files it is outdoors of the proper jurisdiction to file a different lawsuit now.
“[Clarkson’s] criticism fails to state specifics enough to represent a lead to of action towards Starstruck,” Blackstock’s crew argues in court docs, “and is, hence, barred for failure to state a declare on which relief can be granted.”
Back again in November 2023, a California labor commissioner ruled that Blackstock owes his ex-spouse $2,641,374 in commissions.
According to court documents acquired by TMZ at the time, Blackstock secured his then-wife a array of opportunities, such as staying a coach on The Voice, internet hosting the Billboard New music Awards and model discounts with businesses like Norwegian Cruise Line and Wayfair. Supervisors, nonetheless, are not normally permitted to safe their clients’ new careers as that is the function of talent agents.
Blackstock reportedly collected a fee for scheduling Clarkson’s gigs, which TMZ claimed totaled extra than the musician’s salary for just about every physical appearance.
Just about 4 months immediately after the labor commissioner’s ruling, Clarkson filed a independent lawsuit and argued that Starstruck violated point out labor principles by acting as unlicensed expertise agents who booked small business offers in the course of her time with the business.
As component of her most recent fit, The Voice judge was searching for “any and all commissions, service fees, earnings, innovations, developing charges or other monies” she paid out to Starstruck, which is owned by Brandon’s father, Narvel Blackstock.
In reaction to the lawsuit, Brandon’s legal professional, Bryan Freedman, unveiled a statement, telling Rolling Stone, “It is morally, ethically and lawfully erroneous to attempt to get monies back again from your ex-husband who not only assisted her as her supervisor but who employed individuals earnings on their kids and Kelly and Brandon’s way of living in the course of the relationship.”
Before getting by themselves in lawful disagreements, Clarkson and Blackstock ended up married for 7 several years and welcomed two kids collectively: River Rose, 9, and Remington, 7. (Brandon also had two older youngsters from a past marriage.)
In June 2020, Clarkson filed for divorce after seven many years of marriage. It was finalized two yrs afterwards.
“I believe the point about divorce — specifically possessing it publicized, and men and women contemplating they know the total issue — the hardest section of that is, like, it was not an overnight determination,” she recalled in March 2023 overall look on the “Angie Martinez IRL” podcast. “Anyone which is been divorced [knows]. That was years in making an attempt to make — not make it get the job done, result in I by no means wished to be aspect of anything to make it get the job done. I wanted to make it wonderful. I desired to make it awesome. I wished to make it every thing it quite possibly could be, and in some cases that just does not occur.”
