He said he had received more than $600,000 from Lady Gaga but had not received his full share of royalties and other fees.
A lawyer for Lady Gaga has responded to a suit filed by her former boyfriend and collaborator, Rob Fusari, who accused her of not giving him his full share of royalties and other fees.
Still, Zwirner got a lesson in the American way of tactical litigation and the billable hour, and the public got a glimpse into the opaque, cliquish workings of art allocation — "a realm of self-proclaimed royalty full of 'blacklists,'grayliststs,' and astonishing chicanery," the presiding judge declared.
Though the judge was disgusted by what the proceedings had revealed about the international fine art milieu, "a world of self-proclaimed royalty full of 'blacklists', 'greylists' and astonishing chicanery", he could find no evidence of a binding guarantee of confidentiality, nor of any breach of contract or agreement.
My Lunches With Orson is full of juicy gossip on Hollywood royalty (Katherine Hepburn "laid around town like nobody's business" and Carol Lombard "behaved like a waitress in a hash house").
Surely, he reasoned, the essential nobility of royalty can only be seen in full if said monarch is mobile on water?
"Anastasia" is a long, silly thing, full of the tabloid nonsense — sex! violence! royalty!
However, we calculate a 15% decline in average rates (due to higher volume of lower-end phones) which suggests full year royalty revenue unlikely to move up materially.
Joplin probably never received her fair share of royalty payments and may never have owned her masters; nor is it likely that her family inherited the full financial fruits of her work.
"The majestic, demented decadence of royalty".
