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Ex-Manager to Chappelle: Pay Up, Bitch!

Posted Apr 21st 2008 8:23PM by TMZ Staff

A former manager says that Dave Chappelle went all, well, Dave Chappelle on him and ditched out on a settlement deal they made.

Mustafa Abuelhija settled a 2005 lawsuit with Chappelle after he was fired abruptly. The settlement called for Abuelhija to receive 10% of the profits from "Dave Chappelle's Block Party," 10% of the money Chappelle got from seasons 2, 3 and 4 of "Chappelle's Show" and 10% of any money he received for the comedy special "For What It's Worth." So far, he claims, he hasn't gotten anything.

According to a new suit, filed in New York, Abuelhija claims Chappelle has taken in close to $1.2 mil since they signed the settlement -- and he feels he's entitled to 10% of it. Reminder to Mustafa -- this is a guy who ran out on 50 million bucks and went to Africa.

Chappelle's lawyer didn't immediately return a call for comment.

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16. There was no season 4 of the Chappelle show. There was barely a season 3...

Posted at 9:52AM on Apr 22nd 2008 by ssj5kalel

17. That just goes to show you never hire anyone from the Lion King.

Posted at 12:10PM on Apr 22nd 2008 by Griff

18. NO MORE CRACK FOR DAVE..

Posted at 2:00PM on Apr 22nd 2008 by VAN HALEN ROCKS

19. Whoever said Chapelle sucks never seen his black white supremacist skit. It is just about the funniest thing to hit television-EVER!

Posted at 2:53PM on Apr 22nd 2008 by Deb

20. Well as they say this is show bizz!!! In all it's glory!!

Posted at 10:37AM on Apr 23rd 2008 by monique

21. 5. Chappelle sucks. He's a crackhead who screwed over a ton of people (add one more to the pile), and he also abuses his wife. Only lowlifes look up that sleaze. His show wasn't even funny.

Posted at 9:42PM on Apr 21st 2008 by wait what

i chose to use 'wait what' as the greatest example of ignorance...
1- chappelle is not a crackhead - he played one on tv. actually he's a weedhead.

2-he is arguably the best modern comic since richard pryor, the direct torchbearer in the lineage of redd foxx, eddie murphy, et al... (& everybody knows this) he is politically astute, intelllectually erudite, with a sense of the absurd that gave him the type of ratings that support and define an entire network - comrdy central which brings us to our next point:

3- this is the most important part -- dave chappelle could afford to walk away from the next season's offer of 50 million dollars, because with the sales of his dvds, (parts 1&2 the best selling of all time) he already had $40 million. he felt that his vision was being compromised, & felt (correctly) that the american public would take his routines on race & politics, & turn them into something that he did not intend. this message board proves him right.

4- far from screwing over tons of people, he got screwed by the very white partner that he helped to make famous.

wait what sounds like just such a person. a jealous interloper who, with no facts or proof talks out of his ass. you are an idiot, wait what, & you will never be the star that dave -- deservedly -- is.

some simple research would show you that far from being a crackhead loser, he is someone who took his (ample) money & ran when it became obvious that the american public & media could not wait to turn him into a britney or any of these other addled messes regularly stalked by people like you, & misinfromed outlets like tmz.

beating his wife - that's rich.

where'd you get that one? national enquirer?

idiot.