Jennifer Lopez is suing her former manager Benny Medina and his company Handprint Entertainment in an attempt to win back past commissions she has paid, and to void current contracts. It's a complicated case because she is using California's Talent Agency Act to do it. This law requires that any person who seeks to procure employment for a performer must be a licensed talent agent with the Labor Commissioner. Violation of the act by an unlicensed manager can result in a nullification of any and all contracts and a refund to the performer of any commissions paid to the manager in a one-year period before the filing of the petition. Lopez claims Medina was unlicensed and therefore any contracts between her and his company don't stand.
Medina issued the following response: "The accusation that I misappropriated money from Jennifer Lopez is both untrue and offensive. Jennifer Lopez, by making false allegations against me, is now trying to add me to the long list of people whom she has used and discarded after she took from them all she could get. It is unfortunate that Ms. Lopez is using a Labor Commission suit as a means of mitigating her outstanding financial contractual obligations to my company and me. I look forward to the opportunity to have the world come to know the real Jennifer Lopez. I will defend myself against these lies and will collect from her every dollar for which I am owed."