Money

Tyga's either a sore loser or can't get his legal ducks in a row -- his music company owes big money to a concertgoer who sued 2 years ago, but still hasn't been paid. Shocking, right?

Quick backstory: Shyanne Riekena sued Tyga's co. after a light stand fell and hit her in the head during one of his concerts in Grand Rapids, MI. She says she suffered head trauma and permanent scarring.

Shyanne sued in 2015 and finally scored a victory last year, with a judge awarding her about $235k.

Thing is ... Tyga Music hasn't cut a check yet, and now she's filed docs to get a judge to force him to pay up. The amount due has now ballooned, due to interest, to $248,553.

Shyanne's attorney, Boris Treyzon, tells TMZ this is the third time he's been hired to collect from Tyga.

We reached out to Tyga, but so far no word back.

The Daily Mail has formally apologized to Melania Trump for falsely claiming she once worked for an escort service, and it paid a lot of money to boot.

The First Lady settled her defamation lawsuit against the outlet ... reportedly for $2.9 million. She had sued for $150 million.

Marriott hotels got nailed by a disgruntled ex-employee who allegedly hacked into the reservation system and cut room rates to as little as $12 a night ... costing the company big money.

According to court docs ... Marriott fired Juan Rodriguez last August, and must have had a hint he wouldn't go quietly because he was ordered to stay away from the company computer system.

Several weeks later, he allegedly hacked Marriott's booking network to practically give rooms away. Prosecutors say he slashed rates on about 3,000 rooms from $159 - $499 per night ... to $12 - $59.

Rodriguez got nabbed because the IP address he used for his remote access matched an IP address used at his NYC home ... according to docs.

David Dao, the doctor who was dragged off the United flight, made a killing on the World Series of Poker while his medical license was suspended in Kentucky.

Dao joined the poker circuit in July 2006 -- one year after his medical license was suspended due to multiple convictions for illegally prescribing painkillers.

In 2009, he came in 2nd in a tournament and walked away with more than $117k.

His player profile shows total earnings of $234,664 in the WSOP.

Some of Dao's competitors are starting to realize he's the same guy from the United incident.

United Airlines is taking a nosedive on Wall Street -- and could lose more than $800 million today -- on the heels of David Dao getting bloodied and dragged off a United flight.

United's shares were down as much as 4% Tuesday morning, which -- if it continues -- can wipe about $830 million off the company's market cap. Other airlines' stock values are down as well, but United is down almost 3 times more.

Hard not to connect the plummet with public outrage over cops forcibly dragging Dao Sunday off the United jet in Chicago.

The airline's CEO is standing behind the flight's crew members who called airport police to remove Dao.

The guys in Five Finger Death Punch claim they're being held hostage by their "sinking ship" of a record label ... and they need a judge to rescue the band before it gets dragged under.

The heavy metal rockers destroy the label, Prospect Park, in a new lawsuit ... saying 5FDP is probably the only profitable band on the roster. The band accused Prospect Park of cooking up a bogus lawsuit last year to keep the band recording ... while it shopped the label.

The band says PP is drowning in debt and is more like "Prospect Dark" these days. Gotta love the delicious wordplay, right?

Remember, the label sued the guys last year, demanding they get back in the studio, pronto ... to finish an unreleased album.

5FDP wants a judge to sign their walking papers, and to make the label fork over a mil in damages.

The famed producer behind Madonna's "Vogue" says he's getting the short end of the stick -- to the tune of half a million bucks -- because the record label's out for payback.

Shep Pettibone, producer extraordinaire -- who's worked with Madge, Janet Jackson, Paula Abdul and a ton of other artists -- says WB Music Corp owes him a ton of back royalties for the 1990 mega hit.

It appears everything was fine up until 2012 ... when Shep and WB were sued for allegedly jacking "Vogue" from someone else. In his lawsuit, Shep says they both came out victorious in that case, but the label spent a ton on lawyers -- more than $700k, according to docs.

The mega producer says WB's been withholding royalties since then to cover that massive legal bill. Translation: we forked out the dough to defend your song ... now you owe us.

Shep ain't buyin' that theory though, and says his contract with the label doesn't give them the right to hold back his "Vogue" dollars.

He believes he's been screwed out of as much as $500k, and wants a judge to force WB Music to hand over the loot.

2:20 PM PT -- Paul doesn't share his ex biz partner's memory of the deal. He tells us, "Unfortunately, Mr. Derbyshire's interpretation of said events is without merit."

Paul Teutul Sr. -- co-founder of Orange County Choppers and star of "American Chopper" -- cost his business partner millions and ruined a future TV project ... according to a new suit.

Thomas Derbyshire claims he and Teutul formed a company specifically to produce a show for A&E called "Orange County Choppers: American Made." Derbyshire says he agreed to fund the project entirely -- up to $3 mil -- but he would own 51% and Teutul would own 49%.

According to the docs ... Teutul agreed to the terms, but a few months after Derbyshire wrote a $1.8 million check to start production, Teutul tried to change ownership to a 50/50 split. Derbyshire says he refused to sign off on the new terms, and production fell apart.

Derbyshire says Teutul was screwing him even before that, though, by striking a side deal with a dog food company, paying his son, Michael, out of the budget without consent and demanding "endless reshoots of himself."

Derbyshire now wants to dissolve the company, and have Teutul cut him a big check for all the money he lost producing a show that never aired.

Wanna drive like Floyd Mayweather? If you've got a cool $4 mil you can buy his old 2015 Bugatti ... on eBay!

TMZ Sports has learned the boxer recently sold his 2015 Bugatti Grand Sport Vitesse to the Luxury Auto Collection in Scottsdale, AZ ... which is now offering it up with a $3.95 million price tag.

L.A.C. even created a post on eBay in case any rich people wanna get in an online bidding war over the whip.

The listing says the car has a top speed of 254 mph, with a 0 to 60 time of 2.4 seconds.

"With only 150 Grand Sports built worldwide, this car was one of the last Grand Sports brought to the US this is an extremely rare opportunity to own a piece of automotive and boxing history."

Mayweather also sold his 2011 Bugatti Grand Sport to L.A.C. ... which is on sale for $2.45 mil.

Janet Jackson's split from husband #3 may have significant financial implications.

Both Janet and Wissam Al Mana are wealthy, but he far more than she. He has an estimated net worth of $1 billion. She's worth an estimated $175 mil.

Janet, who had a prenup with husband #2 Rene Elizondo, almost certainly had a prenup with Al Mana. Such prenups are typically structured -- so the longer the marriage, the bigger the settlement.

Prenups typically have 5 and 10 year marks, which trigger more money in the pot to be divided. Janet announced in February, 2013 that she had gotten married a year earlier. Given the date of her reported separation from Al Mana, it seems to be almost exactly at the 5 year mark of marriage.

The couple just had a baby in January, which may also have prenup implications.

Migos' most famous line just got the bling treatment.

Offset just dropped $100k on a ridiculously iced out chain in the shape of a raindrop. It's obviously inspired by their hit, "Bad & Boujee" ... which, for anyone sleeping out there, starts "raindrop, drop top."

Elliot Avianne of Avianne & Co Jewelers tells us the raindrop pendant is 32 karats which makes for a total of 65 karats when you add in the chain. Offset came up with the idea and wanted it ready in time for Quavo's bday this week -- he turned 26 on April 2.

The crazy part ... Elliot got the piece done in 48 hours, so ...

Yeah, Offset's diamonds a choker (glah) / Holdin' fire with no holster (bloaw).

Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino is in a heap of trouble, because the feds have added new criminal charges against him, alleging he tried to screw Uncle Sam out of millions of dollars.

The U.S. Attorney in New Jersey just added tax evasion, structuring and falsifying records to avoid detection of assets. Specifically, the U.S. Attorney says Mike and his brother, who also faces criminal charges, illegally concealed some of the $8.9 mil Mike made between 2010 and 2012.

They say he filed false income tax returns and made fraudulent deductions.

He was originally charged with other tax offenses. He faces decades in prison if convicted.

Chris Brown and Lil Wayne are now reportedly targets of a federal drug investigation involving thousands of dollars of narcotics, including lean.

The probe was triggered by a criminal drug trial involving Miami music producer Harrison Garcia who allegedly sent texts to people acknowledging and even bragging he sold drugs to the 2 rappers.

Garcia exchanged texts with an underling to deliver drugs to Wayne, saying, "I'll shoot u some trees (pot)." Garcia responded, "It's for Wayne."

In another text, Gracia sent a screenshot of a $15,000 bank deposit from Chris Brown, saying, "Look who put money my account." The woman said, "What that for LOL" and he responded with with a couple of smiley faces with the message, "Drugs ... lean and sh*t" ... this according to the Miami Herald.

A federal agent testified Garcia also told cops he sold Wayne narcotics ... "a lot of narcotics."

Garcia often poses on social media next to exotic cars, bling, expensive sneakers, stacks of cash and guns ... and has been photographed with CB and Weezy.

The feds believe he used the drug money to buy those toys.

Kim Kardashian just had an anniversary of one of her most lucrative deals ... over video that has become a centerpiece of modern pop culture ... a sex tape that made her famous, and very, very rich.

It's the 10 year mark of the release of "Kim Kardashian Superstar." She publicly lashed out at Ray J who seemed behind the release from the get-go. Ultimately, she had to sign on for the release. Now for the numbers, and they are staggering.

-- 210 million views, accounting for online, DVD and VividTV.

-- Someone began watching the tape on an average of every 1.5 seconds.

-- There were significant spikes over the last decade for the following events -- Kim's marriage to Kris Humphries, her divorce from Humphries, rumors she started dating Kanye, her Paper Magazine cover and the Paris robbery.

Sources involved in the deals tell us the tape has raked in north of $100 mil since its release.

Donald Trump Jr. couldn't contain himself ... poking fun at the media while exaggerating his daughter's trip to the Treasury Department.

Donald Jr. posted a pic of 9-year-old daughter Kai holding stacks of money. He captioned it "Kai is enjoying her tour of the US Treasury in Washington DC a bit too much." He also came up with the headline "Trump Grandchildren caught stealing from Treasury building."

Kylie Jenner is trying to unload the first home she ever bought ... so much so, she's slashing the asking price.

Kylie bought the Calabasas house back in 2015 for $2.6 million. Since then she's become a real estate baroness, snagging 3 other homes in the area.

She listed the starter home last June for $3.9 mil ... there were bites but no solid offers. So Kylie's go-to realtor, Tomer Fridman, just reduced the price to $3.3 mil.

The house is 4,800 square feet, it has 5 bedrooms, 6.5 baths and lots of bells and whistles.