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Jennifer Lopez sues former driver for $20 million
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 13 August 2012
Singer and ex ‘American Idol’ judge Jennifer Lopez is suing a former driver, Hakob Manoukian, for $20 million, claiming that he attempted to blackmail her, according to The Wrap.
Lopez’s litigation is a countersuit to a claim by Manoukian himself, filed earlier this year, in which he claimed that he was denied pay owed to him for work he did for the singer, that he was unfairly demoted to the position of her driver, and then quit after being publicly humiliated by her manager, Benny Madina.
In her counterclaim, Lopez says that last October, following his resignation, Manoukian’s then lawyer “made written and oral demands that unless Manoukian was paid $2.8 million, he would disclose sensitive and personal information that he had allegedly heard while driving Ms Lopez”.
As well as accusing her former employee of “blackmail, extortion, and related acts”, the lawsuit also points out that this was “in total disregard of Manoukian’s signed confidentiality agreement”.