Background
This action involves claims by a deceased entertainer’s business entity for breach of a nondisclosure agreement by the entertainer’s former manager, interfering with that agreement by television producers, and related claims.
According to the allegations, Jenni Rivera was a world-renown Mexican-American singer, songwriter, and actress who died in a plane crash on December 9, 2012. Complaint ¶¶ 1, 18. JRE owns and manages Rivera’s business assets, apparently including her estate. Complaint ¶ 18. Salgado was Rivera’s business manager. Complaint ¶¶ 2, 19. On September 17, 2013, Salgado entered into a nondisclosure agreement (NDA) where he agreed not to disclose any information about Rivera, to hold such information as a fiduciary, and that JRE shall be entitled to injunctive relief for any breach. Complaint ¶¶ 4, 19-21, 32, Exh. 1, NDA ¶ 2(b)-(c). Salgado breached his contractual and fiduciary duties by authoring an unpublished book about Rivera that was disseminated
Hearing Date
December 19, 2016
Type
Othr Breach Contr/Warr-not Fraud (General Jurisdiction)
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Background
This action involves claims by a deceased entertainer’s business entity for breach of a nondisclosure agreement by the entertainer’s former manager, interfering with that agreement by television producers, and related claims.
According to the allegations, Jenni Rivera was a world-renown Mexican-American singer, songwriter, and actress who died in a plane crash on December 9, 2012. Complaint ¶¶ 1, 18. JRE owns and manages Rivera’s business assets, apparently including her estate. Complaint ¶ 18. Salgado was Rivera’s business manager. Complaint ¶¶ 2, 19. On September 17, 2013, Salgado entered into a nondisclosure agreement (NDA) where he agreed not to disclose any information about Rivera, to hold such information as a fiduciary, and that JRE shall be entitled to injunctive relief for any breach. Complaint ¶¶ 4, 19-21, 32, Exh. 1, NDA ¶ 2(b)-(c). Salgado breached his contractual and fiduciary duties by authoring an unpublished book about Rivera that was disseminated