Lee Daniels is facing some legal issues as Damon Dash has reportedly sued the filmmaker for $5 million for allegedly breaching a contract.
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The media mogul said the “Empire” creator reneged on a 2015 agreement to list him as an executive producer of the upcoming Richard Pryor biopic, according to TMZ. He also said he was promised 5 percent of Daniels’ back-end profits for the project.
On Tuesday, Dash took to social media to publicly expose Lee. He posted an Instagram video of him confronting Daniels about the money he is allegedly owed at a Diana Ross show. It also shows Daniels admitting that he was “wrong.”
He also added a lengthy caption, tagging the filmmaker and several media outlets.
“I straight up loaned this dude Lee Daniels @theoriginalbigdaddy 2 million to pay for his dream of being a director...it was the money I was using to fund my movies and stay Indy...,” he wrote. “He promised I get my money back in months...then he makes precious and goes missing so he doesn’t have to pay me.”
This isn’t the first time the two have had legal issues. Dash also reportedly sued Daniels in 2014 over an alleged loan he said he never got back.
They reportedly settled. Daniels has yet to respond to the latest case.
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