Monday, August 11, 2014

Sonja Morgan’s Bankruptcy Sparks Battle Between Her Trustee's Attorneys and Film Production Company


RadarOnline.com:
Sonja Morgan is at the center of yet another financial firestorm, with a production company she owes $7 million to at odds with her trustee’s bankruptcy lawyers for more than $165,000 in the legal fees they collected in the case.

As we previously reported, Morgan filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy back in November 2010 after she lost a legal battle with Hannibal Pictures, a production company who claimed she failed to raise money for a film starring John Travolta; the court subsequently slapped her with a judgement, saying she owed the film company more than $7 million.

The RHONY star has been dealing with her massive amount of debt. in court, and most recently, sold off her French estate for $5.7 million to be used to start paying off her creditors.

On July 31, Hannibal Pictures filed docs in New York protesting the bankruptcy trustee’s lawyers (with the firm Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth, P.C.) collecting a sum totaling more than $165,000 for their work on the case.

The film company said that the money being requesting for the work was “unnecessary, unauthorized and/or unreasonably excessive and therefore not recoverable.”

Hannibal explains that the breakdown of the money they are requesting contains “spending grossly excessive hours in performing its services; having six different attorneys perform overlapping and duplicative services; billing for unauthorized appellate services not approved by the court; billing for unnecessary services regarding matters outside the record of the district court action which were completely irrelevant; and seeking reimbursement for unnecessary expenses.”

In the docs, Hannibal described many of the law firm’s billing entries as “woefully vague and insufficient.”

The company said that the legal fees should be cut by $100,000 at least, and that the lawyers should receive a maximum of $30,000 in legal fees for their efforts on the reality star’s case.
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1 comment:

  1. Sonja,what's wrong didn't you sell a toster yet.all these projects she has going,yet not one has come to stores.I quit watchen this show when she was after the young boy on the boat.surely you watched sonja&saw him tryen to escape your old self.she is so sad.used to be a fav housewife.now is old hag,you can get a facelift but the hands&neck show.please leave the boys alone.her poor daughter,a drunk for a mother.how sad!!!

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