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Given his heartwrenching songs, Garth Brooks knows that breaking up is hard to do. The country singer is being sued by his former business partner, who claims that she was induced to work on his behalf with the promise of great rewards. The allegations, which sound more like a country song than a lawsuit, describe Brooks as a "paranoid, angry, deceitful and vindictive man who will turn against those closest to him on a dime."

The complaint alleges breach of oral contract and fraud, and seeks $425,000 in damages from unpaid salary, bonuses and punitive damages.

Is Joan Rivers really a Prada-clad Miranda Priestly in her own right? Rivers' "Fashion Police" writers recently filed labor complaints against her production company for back pay with the California Division of Labor Standards. Now, the reality show writers have added another $400,000 to the $1.1 million they are already seeking.

The labor issue highlights the question of when an employer owes creative employees wages for overtime.

The Situation is dealing with his own situation over the vodka deal he made with the now-famous Devotion spirits for the company's protein-infused vodka.

The "Jersey Shore" star made an arrangement with the company back in 2010 to endorse its product. As part of the deal, Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino got an 8 percent ownership interest in the company, and he claims he's entitled to more than that.

Sorrentino says he held up his end of the bargain and helped build the company's reputation. Now he wants the company to pay up on its end of the deal.

Dish Network reached a $700 million settlement in the lawsuit brought against it by Cablevision and AMC Networks.

Fans of Mad Men and Breaking Bad can rejoice as that means that the Dish blackout of AMC has ended, and they can continue following the likes of Walter White and Don Draper.

The AMC channel should have resumed on the Dish Network earlier this week and other AMC networks like the Sundance Channel, WE tv and IFC, will return to on November 1, reports Reuters.

E.L. James's novel 50 Shades of Grey has taken the U.S. by storm and its erotic nature, including a steamy BDSM contract, has caused quite the buzz.

Love it or hate it, the book is big news, selling millions of copies.

If you haven't read it yet, there might be some spoilers below. But if you have read it, you must have been curious about the contract that Christian Grey offers to the book's narrator, Anastasia Steele.

The contract sets out terms for a BDSM sexual arrangement between Grey and Steele which made us wonder: would it survive in court?

Jennifer Lopez says she left American Idol voluntarily, but it may be that the singer/actress was fired after asking for another raise.

In what would have been her third season on the popular Fox show, Jennifer Lopez reportedly asked for a $2-million-dollar raise. This comes just a year after she got a $3 million raise boosting her salary from $12 million her first year to $15 million in her second (and last) year, reports Reuters.

Instead of countering Jennifer Lopez's raise demands, Fox reportedly just let her go, reports Reuters.

Talk about first-world problems. Rapper Missy Elliot sued a Westmont, Illinois Lamborghini dealer for delivery of her car.

Elliot says she worked out a deal with the car dealership to buy a 2012 Lamborghini Aventador for $375,000. As part of the deal, Elliot agreed to put down a $30,000 down payment as well as trading in her 2005 Bentley for $85,000.

But as the Aventador's market value apparently has risen far above the original asking price of $375,000, Fox Valley Motor Cars has now refused to deliver Missy Elliot's Lambroghini, reports the Chicago Sun-Times.

A Jay-Z lawsuit seeks $7 million in allegedly unpaid royalties over the iconic Roc-A-Fella Records logo.

It's apparently been a hard-knock life for New York City clothing designer Dwayne Walker, who claims he came up with the Roc-A-Fella design when the record label began making its mark in 1995, the New York Daily News reports.

But despite an alleged deal, the designer claims he's been short-changed by Jay-Z and the other fellas behind Roc-A-Fella.

She may play a good lawyer on TV but that doesn't make Julianna Margulies immune to lawsuits. The Good Wife star was sued by her former management company on Monday for breach of contract.

D/F Management represented Margulies from 2009 until 2011 when she fired them. During that time they helped her land her current role on The Good Wife as well as a lucrative deal as a spokeswoman for L'Oreal according to Deadline Hollywood.

They now claim she owes them $420,000 in unpaid commissions and they want an order entitling them to a continued 10%.

They weren't working for Margulies during any of the time that they claim she owed them money, but they still may have a case.

The Octomom's strip club debut has set the stage for a lawsuit.

Nadya Suleman, the unemployed mother of 14 including her famous octuplets, allegedly signed a contract to shake her money-maker at T's Lounge (get it, "Tease"?) in West Palm Beach, Fla., the Palm Beach Post reports. Her debut was set for Friday.

But after some teasing by a T's staffer on TV, Suleman bailed on the deal, and now plans to make her dirty dancing debut at a rival strip club instead.

That's grounds for a lawsuit, T's owner says.