Judge vacates ruling that rapper Birdman has to pay an ex-employee $1 million
A Miami-Dade circuit judge vacated the ruling that would’ve required rap mogul Bryan “Birdman” Williams to pay an ex-employee roughly $1 million in back wages, court documents show.
The reasoning?
Both Birdman, 50, and his label Cash Money Records weren’t properly served, according to his attorney Alan Soven.
“You can’t serve Bryan Williams by handing it to the secretary of the lawyer at Cash Money Records,” Soven said Tuesday after the hearing before Judge Reemberto Diaz.
Per Soven, the case, which the complaint alleges was over unpaid wages, returns to the beginning.
In early October, the Miami Herald reported that a court default judgment required Williams to pay his former property manager Nicolas Jose Penzo, $1,069,876 plus interest. The ruling, handed down by Diaz in August, went more than a month without being fulfilled. Penzo then subpoenaed Citibank.
The subpoena resulted in a startling revelation: Williams had withdrawn all of his funds from Citibank.
With the case essentially starting over, Birdman and Cash Money have to be served again, Soven said.
This story was originally published January 8, 2020 at 6:41 PM.
