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LeAnn Rimes targeted by father in countersuit
LeAnn Rimes ’ father, Wilbur Rimes, has filed a counter suit against the teen country-singer’s management company, LeAnn Rimes Entertainment Inc., according to a Dallas Morning News report. LeAnn Rimes filed a suit against her father in May.
In a lawsuit filed in Dallas last week, Wilbur Rimes reportedly claims that he is owed more money for producing his daughter's albums. Those albums include “Blue,” “Unchained Melody: The Early Years,” “You Light Up My Life: Inspirational Songs,” “Sittin’ on Top of the World” and “LeAnn Rimes,” according to the albums’ credits. The five albums, released on the Curb label, have sold a combined total of over 14 million copies to date, according to the Recording Industry Association of America.
In May, LeAnn Rimes filed a lawsuit against her father and former co-manager Lyle Walker in which the singer claimed that the two former co-managers had illegally siphoned millions of dollars away from her LeAnn Rimes Entertainment Inc. over a five year period.
The singer split with her father and Walker in December of 1999 after her mother, Belinda Rimes, hired accountants to investigate Wilbur Rimes’ finances. Belinda and Wilbur Rimes divorced in 1997.
Last month, LeAnn Rimes--now 18 years old--filed a separate lawsuit against Curb Records in an effort to end a contract her parents signed with the label on her behalf in 1995.
