Singer Toni Braxton Files $10 Million Suit Against Former Manager

R&B singer Toni Braxton filed a $10 million lawsuit against her former personal manager, Barry Hankerson, on Friday.
For a multi-platinum selling songstress, Toni Braxton can’t contract her career to save her life. T.B filed for bankruptcy in 2000 and now, according to the suit filed in the U.S District Court of Manhattan, the singer is blaming B.H of turning her into his own personal puppet.
“Hankerson actively sought to destroy Braxton’s relationship with Arista through underhanded `double-talk,’ telling Braxton that Arista was not interested in working with her anymore, while telling Arista that Braxton no longer wanted to record for Arista,” the official documents claim.
Essentially, she’s blaming her manager for her decision to jump the Arista ship in 2003. A ship that she boarded in 1991 as an unknown gospel singer from Nowheresville, Maryland and departed as multi-Grammy Award winner and nominee.
B.H is accused of creating a hostile environment by pulling stories of creative difficulties out of his rear end when Toni was nonsensical enough to allow him to act as her mouthpiece with record label execs. Barry Hankerson, whose label Blackground Music launched the career of R&B’s princess, Aaliyah, is accused of strong-arming Toni over to his label, where he denied her basic claims to the tracks she recorded.
