Rihanna is suing her former accountants claiming they lost millions of dollars of her earnings.
The Pop Star seeks damages against New York-based Berdon LLP as well as two of its staff, who have left the firm. She accuses them for poor book-keeping, a failure to recommend she cut back on expenses when her tour in 2009 was losing money and an ongoing audit by the US tax authority.The case is being filed under Rihanna’s real name Robyn Fenty at a New York court.
The singer, who headlined Radio 1’s Hackney Weekend last month, is claiming her former accountancy firm earned large commissions from concert tours while putting her in a deficit of millions of dollars. The lawsuit states that Berdon LLP took 22% of the Last Girl on Earth tour’s total revenues while only paying Rihanna 6%.
In the lawsuit Rihanna claims that since the 24-year-old artist fired the accountancy firm, her earnings have increased. She states that she hired Berdon LLP in 2005 when she was a 16-year-old from Barbados and just launching her career.
Ron Storch, a partner at Berdon LLP, said the company could not comment on the court case.
