Muni Long alleges in new court papers that her former management team made her spend five days in a mental health facility when she should have been getting medical treatment for a lupus flare-up.
The Grammy-winning R&B singer is locked in a legal battle with Chaka Zulu and Jeff Dixon, music managers best known for their long partnership with Ludacris. The duo alleged in an October lawsuit that Long (real name Priscilla Renea Hamilton) has refused to pay more than $600,000 in past-due commissions after firing them.
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But in a Tuesday (Jan. 6) countersuit, Long says she never signed a written management agreement with Zulu and Dixon. The singer claims she owes nothing to the managers and that they are, in fact, liable to her for breach of fiduciary duty and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
According to Long, Zulu and Dixon severely mishandled a flare-up of her chronic lupus condition in March 2024. She says that instead of taking her to a hospital for medical treatment, the managers forced her to spend five days at the Cleveland Clinic Indian River Behavioral Health Center.
“During that time, Hamilton was isolated and experienced excruciating pain and mental anguish from being forced to remain in a mental health facility instead of having her lupus condition treated,” reads the countersuit. “As a result of being placed in the wrong facility, Hamilton did not receive correct medical care, which had a long-term negative effect on her health. Neither Zulu nor Dixon visited or attempted to contact Hamilton while she was hospitalized.”
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Long further alleges Zulu and Dixon did a poor job managing her career, missing key opportunities and even recommending that she turn down an offer to perform at Coachella last year.
“Zulu and Dixon continually failed to satisfy the rudimentary functions of a personal manager in the music industry,” write Long’s lawyers, Brian Caplan and Brett Van Benthysen from the firm Reitler Kailas & Rosenblatt.
Long says she ultimately fired the managers in December 2024 after they tried to take credit for a performance her publicist had arranged. Now, she’s seeking unspecified financial damages.
A lawyer for Zulu and Dixon did not immediately return a request for comment on Wednesday (Jan. 7).
