Prince is facing legal action from an unnamed US-based literary agent who claim he cut them out of a deal for a book documenting his 2007 O2 residency at the last minute, despite them having an exclusivity arrangement in relation to the book.
In legal papers filed in the LA County Superior Court last week, the literary firm says they were engaged as the "exclusive agent with respect to the negotiations of a publishing deal". However, once a publisher had been found the singer, they say, stopped returning their calls. They then discovered he'd done a deal without them.
They are suing for the 15% commission which they say they are due for their role in setting up the deal which, TMZ reckons, would amount to about $200,000.