Here’s Why Kelly Clarkson Just Sued Her Ex-Husband Brandon Blackstock

Clarkson and Blackstock’s divorce was finalized in 2022.

Kelly Clarkson has taken authorized motion towards her ex-husband Brandon Blackstock once more simply months after she gained $2.6 million towards him and his father’s administration firm, Starstruck Leisure, in a separate lawsuit.

The 41-year-old actress filed the lawsuit in a Los Angeles court docket on Monday, March 11, alleging that Starstruck violated state labor guidelines by performing as unlicensed expertise brokers to safe enterprise offers, Us Weekly experiences.

Based on Billboard, Clarkson is suing Starstruck to be able to get better “any and all commissions, charges, income, advances, producing charges, and different monies” she paid to the corporate, which is owned by Brandon’s father, Narvel Blackstock.

“Primarily based on the wrongful acts and conduct of Starstruck, all agreements between the events, must be declared void and unenforceable, no monies must be paid by cross-complainants to Starstruck, and all monies beforehand paid by cross-complainants to Starstruck must be disgorged from Starstruck, forthwith,” reads the most recent submitting obtained by Rolling Stone.

After splitting in 2020, Clarkson and Blackstock, 47, have been concerned in a number of authorized battles. The Starstruck label sued Clarkson shortly after they filed for divorce, claiming it had “invested quite a lot of time, cash, power and dedication” into the singer and had “developed Clarkson right into a mega celebrity.”

Clarkson then claimed that Starstruck served as unlicensed expertise brokers in violation of California’s Expertise Companies Act. In November final yr, a choose dominated that the company had brokered offers for Clarkson, together with being a choose on The Voice, when Clarkson’s crew at Inventive Artists Company ought to have gotten her the work. Because of this, Brandon was required to repay $2.6 million in commissions for that and different offers.

In response to this new submitting, Bryan Freedman informed Rolling Stone, “It’s morally, ethically and legally mistaken to try to get monies again out of your ex-husband who not solely helped her as her supervisor however who used these earnings on their kids and Kelly and Brandon’s way of life through the marriage.”

The earlier case coated solely 2017, however the brand new one goes again to 2007. A listening to is scheduled for August on Brandon’s attraction of the earlier case, but when Clarkson wins this case, it will depart little to help the attraction.

After getting married in 2013, Clarkson and Brandon cut up up in 2020. Their divorce was finalized in 2022, however their authorized disputes have since continued. Throughout that point, Clarkson was ordered to ship Brandon a $1.3 million one-time cost and $45,601 in little one help. The couple has two kids, River, 9, and Remington, 7.