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Marie Osmond is 'Shameful' -- Ex Manager Claims

Posted Nov 5th 2009 12:47AM by TMZ Staff

Marie Osmond Marie Osmond is an ungrateful celebrity who screwed the man who rebuilt her career -- according to the man who claims he helped rebuild her career.

Karl Engemann -- Marie's long-time manager -- says he resurrected her career, only to be fired and defamed by Donny's little sis.

Marie's lawyer, legal pit bull Marty Singer, tells TMZ Marie fired Engemann -- the father of Larry King's wife, Shawn -- "because he acted in an inappropriate, improper manner and breached his fiduciary duty to Marie." Singer also says Engemann defamed Marie, and she'll go after him for "substantial monies" and establish he has no right to more commissions.

Engemann's lawyer, Larry Stein, calls the attacks against his client "scandalous" and "scurrilous."

Marie is now making a bundle -- $125,000 a show in Las Vegas for starters -- and Stein says it's all Engemann's doing.

Attorney Stein, tells TMZ, "Shamefully, Ms. Osmond has fired Mr. Engemann 18 months into a 5 year written contract and seeks to enjoy the fruits of his labors without compensating him for his work."

The matter is currently before a private arbitrator.

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1. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Posted at 12:48AM on Nov 5th 2009 by Simone

2. Get a life, bitch. You aren't gonna win herfe.

Posted at 12:49AM on Nov 5th 2009 by Simone

3. It's a complicated situation...

Posted at 12:51AM on Nov 5th 2009 by Simone

4. GET YOUR MONEY MR. Engemann, IF YOU DESERVE IT

Posted at 1:09AM on Nov 5th 2009 by C

5.

Ahhhh.

People of God.

Godly people.

Aren't they all...

































...amazing???

Posted at 1:20AM on Nov 5th 2009 by Fred Farkel

6. Marie will win. Go girl.

Posted at 1:20AM on Nov 5th 2009 by Jeannie

7. Utah is the fraud capital of America.
Marie should know better by now than to trust Mormons to run her finances lol.
Hasn't she learned anything from her parents' bankruptcy or the Hoffman frauds?

Posted at 1:26AM on Nov 5th 2009 by Molly

8. The bitch is getting what she deserves, bad publicity, stress, and exposure. Molly is correct, Utah is demon capital of the planet.

Posted at 1:51AM on Nov 5th 2009 by Cal

9. Diva-licious. Mmm, any wonder she's had two husbands or that one of her children is in and out of rehab? This woman is phony-baloney. Sorry, Marie, but you should practice what you preach.

Posted at 2:35AM on Nov 5th 2009 by Cathazat

10. I have been in the entertainment field for over 50 years and I personally know Karl Engemann. ANYONE in the entertainment business knows that he is a gentle, kind, intelligent and most importantly EFFECTIVE manager. Marie Osmond would have had a hard time getting recognized at the local mall a few years ago. Now she commands large sums and is on top again. She didn't get there by accident. Karl POSITIONED HER. When her TV show with Donny tanked, Karl reinvented her as a country artist. NO record label wanted her. Karl made it happen anyway and she had several country hits. When that career died, he reinvented her as a Broadway star. This is how she repays over THIRTY years of loyalty. He nursed her through 2 divorces, career stagnation, a somewhat controversial "suicide attempt" and that's just the tip of the iceburg. Marie's actions are plainly and simply GREED in action. I have rarely been so disgusted with a human being as I am with her. There is no doubt that Marie has talent. It's too bad she doesn't have a soul.

Posted at 2:59AM on Nov 5th 2009 by "Fred Barker"

11. Is there a family any more disliked than the Osmonds ? The Hilton's maybe but the Osmonds get my vote. Donny/Marie GO AWAY !!!

Posted at 3:01AM on Nov 5th 2009 by TMZBoy

12. People are paying to see her in Las Vegas? She should pay this agent double. I'm not at all surprised that she would do this though.

Posted at 3:02AM on Nov 5th 2009 by Anon

13. Fred Barker I totally believe it. She seems like a car wreck drama queen

Posted at 3:05AM on Nov 5th 2009 by Anon

14. It's amazing where a lifetime of phony schmoozling and singing through your nose can get you.

Posted at 3:16AM on Nov 5th 2009 by moveover

15. Personally, I can't stand her and that ridiculously endless "cackle" of hers!! She is SOOOO fake and HAS to mention in every interview that she is "the mother of eight kids." I believe she has only given birth to two of them . . . and they seem pretty royally screwed up by her anyway. I've heard her mention that she is personally not against plastic surgery but that she hasn't ever had any herself . . . ARE YOU KIDDING ME???!!! She is starting to look like a transvestite! I would hate to have to manage her! What a bitch.

Posted at 3:25AM on Nov 5th 2009 by Belinda

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