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Prince Accused of Royally Screwing Book People

Posted Apr 22nd 2009 12:55PM by TMZ Staff

PrinceThe artist known as Prince will also be known as defendant -- accused of some seriously cutthroat business tactics in a book deal gone sour.

According to a lawsuit filed yesterday in L.A. County Superior Court, a literary agency claims Prince chose them as his "exclusive agent with respect to the negotiations of a publishing deal" for a book called "21 Nights" and a special limited edition version.

In the documents, the agency claims in the final stages of the deal, Prince stopped calling them back -- and then went behind their back to finish the negotiations -- thus screwing the company out of it's 15% commission.

The agency is now suing for it's 15% -- about $200,000. Practically chump change for the Purple One.

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1. First...

Posted at 1:37PM on Apr 22nd 2009 by Donna

2. why do rich people have to be such pricks, I mean i guess that's how they got there, but can't someone go up to Prince and be like 'dude, you're Prince, you made it. relax'

Posted at 2:03PM on Apr 22nd 2009 by rob white

3. Could somebody tell me why this guy is still around???

Posted at 1:48PM on Apr 22nd 2009 by Marilyn

4. Oh well..Chump change for his royal purpleness...

Posted at 2:59PM on Apr 22nd 2009 by You Gotta See This!

5. third!

Posted at 1:49PM on Apr 22nd 2009 by David

6. We all know he is an Indian giver, when he took the TMZ staff's guitar back after giving it to him, so maybe he is wrong.

Posted at 2:00PM on Apr 22nd 2009 by Linda Mott

7. There's a reason they call that literary agent "VIG THE PIG".

Posted at 1:56PM on Apr 22nd 2009 by LOL

8. Haha. He so totally crazy. Listen to Kevin Smiths interviews and he teels a great story about how disconnected from reality he is.

Posted at 2:07PM on Apr 22nd 2009 by dman

9. So Prince is OK with screwing his business partners, but not OK with people downloading his so-called music for free off the net.
What a jerk.

Posted at 9:10PM on Apr 22nd 2009 by Do as I say, not as I do

10. leave this sexy mother f*cker alone. love prince! ;-)

Posted at 2:31PM on Apr 22nd 2009 by anthonysdreamgirl**

11. Is that octamom or what.

Posted at 4:15PM on Apr 22nd 2009 by james

12. UM, F**K ALL Y 'ALL WHO SAY PRINCE IS ANYTHING OTHER THAN AN AMAZINGLY TALENTED MUSICAL GENIUS. YEAH, HE F**KED THEM OUTTA SOME DOUGH, HE'LL PAY IT & KEEP DOIN' HIS THING...

SCRAMS... QUIT HATIN'.... LET'S SEE YOU PUMP OUT COUNTLESS CD'S OVER A 20-YEAR SPAN & THEN YOU CAN TALK ISH!!!

Posted at 4:40PM on Apr 22nd 2009 by VitaminDeege

13. VitaminDeege your an idiot

Posted at 4:45PM on Apr 22nd 2009 by nola

14. Prince has a reputation of being a cut throat businessman.

I just hope I'm alive one day to see the movie of his life:

Norma Desmond in "Sunset Blvd." comes to mind: deluded, washed up, talented-but-time-has-passed-her-by.

...and divorced from reality. I've seen the Kevin Smith video, and heard Howard Stern's story about Prince demanding ALL THE LIGHTS OFF at a performance in a hotel room.

Posted at 5:24PM on Apr 22nd 2009 by Jamie Starr

15. Perhaps more attention to grammar? "It's" means "it is"; "its" is the possessive. What happened to the TMZ editorial staff?

Posted at 6:16PM on Apr 22nd 2009 by RM

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