Well, it's been a busy few days in the pop courts. First up, the former manager of Mario has launched a countersuit to a lawsuit launched by the R&B star back in February.
Mario is suing Troy Patterson and his company Third Street over allegations the manager abused the singer's youth and his mother's ignorance to force them into a management partnership that cheated them out of much of the profits made by Mario's subsequent successes. The singer claims he only received $50,000 for the sale of more than 3 million records under his deal with Patterson, which ended in 2004. Patterson denies those allegations, and is countersuing accordingly.
Although Patterson was involved in Mario's initial relationship with SonyBMG's J Records, the legal wranglings between Mario and his former manager do not seem to have had any affect on the singer's ongoing relationship with his label.