Miss Impartial is ensuring that she’s getting what she’s price. Folks stories that Kelly Clarkson filed a brand new go well with towards her ex-husband, Brandon Blackstock, claiming that he owes her much more cash on high of a earlier ruling that awarded her $2.6 million. 4 months in the past, a California labor commissioner dominated that Blackstock “overstepped” throughout his time as her supervisor, which led to him owing her the beforehand reported sum, however in new paperwork submitted to the courts, Clarkson is claiming that Blackstock’s labor violations date again to 2007. That 12 months marked her verbal settlement with Starstruck Administration, the corporate that Blackstock’s father based.
The earlier judgment solely went again to 2017, so Clarklson’s authorized staff is requesting a “full and full accounting from Starstruck of all monies obtained by Starstruck, straight or not directly, in reference to any and all contracts, employment, or engagements pertaining in any method to the private companies of [Clarkson],” together with commissions, charges, income, advances, and producing charges.
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Blackstock was Clarkson’s supervisor from 2017 to 2020, the identical 12 months that she filed for divorce. They had been married for seven years and share a daughter named River and a son named Remy. In November 2023, the labor commissioner concluded that Blackstock “unlawfully procured her work” in violation of California’s Expertise Companies Act. The commissioner cited 4 particular violations, together with Clarkson’s contract with The Voice, which began in 2018.
The authorized submitting between the 2 began in September 2020, when Starstruck first sued Clarkson, saying that she owed him greater than $1.4 million in unpaid commissions. She counter-sued him, submitting paperwork that accused Starstruck, Blackstock, and his father Narvel of violating the Expertise Companies Act.
Clarkson and Blackstock finalized their divorce in 2022, and the American Idol winner paid him $1.3 million and continues to pay him month-to-month little one assist.