Joseph King and Isaac Slade, songwriters in chart-topping US rock band The Fray, are suing their manager, Gregg Latterman, claiming that he fraudulently obtained a percentage of their publishing rights when he helped them sign a publishing deal back in 2005.
King and Slade say that Latterman told them that his company, Gregg Alan Corp, would receive a finders fee for his role in the deal but instead took a significant cut of their royalties, which has netted the company around $2.1 million directly from the deal, and a further $700,000 from other income relating to it. They also say that the band's other two members, David Welsh and Benjamin Wysocki, are entitled to some of the money but were not given a cut in the deal.
In legal papers filed on Monday, they said: " would not have been deprived of valuable assets and income that should rightly be theirs but for defendants' fraud".