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According to Variety, Icelene Jones, the widow of Ol' Dirty Bastard, is suing Wu-Tang Clan Productions, owned and operated by RZA, for over $1 million in unpaid royalties to his estate.
The lawsuit claims that ODB's estate wasn't paid royalties from 2011 to 2021. In July 2021 that a check for $130K reportedly sent and "the estate also received some payments in 2019 and 2020 from Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., but the suit alleges that the combined payments are just a fraction of what is owed."
A 1992 recording agreement was cited in the lawsuit, which states that ODB should "be paid 50% of net earnings on the publishing of his copyrighted songs. It added that the members of the group were to split 50% of net earnings from the sound recordings."
A representative for ODB's estate released a statement addressing the $1 million they are seeking, "Wu-Tang Productions, Inc., owned by Wu-Tang member Robert Diggs (RZA) has willfully refused to compensate or provide accounting records to the Estate of Ol’ Dirty Bastard, despite being contractually obligated. The Estate will randomly receive partial checks such as the one sent for $130,000 in July of 2021 from Wu-Tang Productions but without financial records, we have no indication of the exact amount the Estate is still owed. It is crucial to understand that ODB’s widow and Administrator of the Estate Icelene Jones has been requesting these financial records for years and has a legal obligation to do so. This is not an attack on Wu-Tang Productions, Inc., but a last legal resort we have had to pursue after being denied and ignored on this matter for over ten years."
The lawsuit claims that ODB's estate wasn't paid royalties from 2011 to 2021. In July 2021 that a check for $130K reportedly sent and "the estate also received some payments in 2019 and 2020 from Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., but the suit alleges that the combined payments are just a fraction of what is owed."
A 1992 recording agreement was cited in the lawsuit, which states that ODB should "be paid 50% of net earnings on the publishing of his copyrighted songs. It added that the members of the group were to split 50% of net earnings from the sound recordings."
A representative for ODB's estate released a statement addressing the $1 million they are seeking, "Wu-Tang Productions, Inc., owned by Wu-Tang member Robert Diggs (RZA) has willfully refused to compensate or provide accounting records to the Estate of Ol’ Dirty Bastard, despite being contractually obligated. The Estate will randomly receive partial checks such as the one sent for $130,000 in July of 2021 from Wu-Tang Productions but without financial records, we have no indication of the exact amount the Estate is still owed. It is crucial to understand that ODB’s widow and Administrator of the Estate Icelene Jones has been requesting these financial records for years and has a legal obligation to do so. This is not an attack on Wu-Tang Productions, Inc., but a last legal resort we have had to pursue after being denied and ignored on this matter for over ten years."
