jay-z sued

NEW YORK (AP) - A New York City clothing designer says Jay-Z and his former Roc-A-Fella record label partners owe him $7 million in unpaid royalties for designing their label logo. Dwayne Walker said in a lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court on Thursday that he created the Roc-A-Fella design...

Jay-Z is being sued over his 2010 book Decoded. A man named Patrick White has apparently filed a handwritten lawsuit claiming the book stole passages from his personal work. Hmm. Brandy recently sat down with Baltimore radio station 92Q Jams, where she discussed her forthcoming album, and explained that she "isn't ready to" pay tribute to Whitney Houston just yet...

It appears that Jay-Z's short-lived legal battle with the Workers' Compensation Board of New York is over before it began. Yesterday (Dec. 29), TMZ reported that Jay was being sued for a whopping $18,000, after failing to pay workers' compensation insurance to cover the employees working at his TriBeCa crib for three months in 2009...

Looks like Jay-Z may have taken 'Big Pimpin' a bit too far. Back in May, a California federal judge ruled that the plaintiff in a copyright lawsuit over Jay's 2000 club hit 'Big Pimpin' had legal standing to pursue a lawsuit, and now it appears that the case will be going to trial...