Overview
- Interscope and parent Universal filed a breach-of-contract suit in Los Angeles on Friday, Oct. 9, saying Walker still owes two studio albums and an EP under a five-album deal and seeking more than $50 million in damages.
- Walker filed a 10-page complaint in Atlanta on Aug. 28 asking a court to void her 2017 agreement with Love Renaissance (LVRN) and seeking compensatory and punitive damages for alleged fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, and breach of contract.
- Her LVRN lawsuit alleges the company diverted touring, recording, marketing, and merchandising budgets to cover company expenses, sold merchandise using her name without paying her, and ran a YouTube channel in her name while withholding revenue and deleting historical data.
- The legal fight turns on California’s seven-year rule and a 1987 amendment that lets labels seek damages when artists leave before delivering contracted recordings, so courts will decide both whether Walker can stop performing and how releases count toward her album quota.
- Both sides say negotiations remain possible, Walker’s team says it will vigorously defend and may countersue, and the outcome could affect artists’ ability to exit deals, label accounting practices, and how digital revenue and nonalbum projects are counted.