Shakira is ripping her ex-boyfriend after he filed a $100 million lawsuit claiming he’s owed part of her career earnings for helping make her a superstar.
The civil suit comes from Antonio de la Rua, who says he helped Shakira become a well-paid performer on the international stage. But the Colombian singer is calling out her ex-boyfriend, saying that she had already become an international superstar by the time they started dating in 2000.
Shakira and her ex-boyfriend were together for 10 years, breaking up in November 2010. In the lawsuit, de la Rua claims that he acted as Shakira’s manager and helped her negotiate some lucrative contracts. He believe he’s entitled to $100 million as a result of his work.
The lawsuit may be a bit of sour grapes. Shakira has a baby boy with Spanish soccer star Gerard Pique, and her career continues to sizzle.
This year she began a new stint as a coach on The Voice, taking over after Christina Aguilera and Cee Lo Green left the show. Critics said Shakira fit in quite nicely, working well off of fellow coaches Adam Levine, Usher, and Blake Shelton.
She even seemed to do well with the show’s unique format, in which the coaches each select singers to be on their teams through a series of blind auditions. Shakira showed a bit of feistyness in critiquing the singers but still held back a bit when she needed to, not tipping off the other coaches know that she was interested in singer Kris Thomas.
“I know you guys. I gotta keep it under control otherwise you all turn and then make my life miserable,” Shakira joked.
Shakira also has an answer for her ex-boyfriend, submitting a request to a judge that his lawsuit be dismissed. Shakira claims the ex-boyfriend advised her on decisions but was never employed by her in any officials sense.
