Daddy Yankee filed a legal action Friday (December 13) in Puerto Rico seeking injunctive relief against his soon-to-be ex-wife Mireddys González, alleging she withdrew $80 million from his El Cartel Records bank account “without authorization.” according to court documents obtained Bulletin board.
The filing by the reggaetón creator (Ramón Luis Ayala Rodríguez) was filed in a court in San Juan against González, her sister Ayeicha González Castellanos and El Cartel Records, a label founded by Yankee, where González allegedly serves as CEO and González. secretary/treasurer.
The 16-page filing claims that “although the plaintiff owns the company's shares and is the reason for the existence of the company Cartel Records Inc., today he has no access, interference and information, to everything that he produced and continues to produce and which is entitled to”.
Now, Yankee is asking the court to provide “the immediate removal of the plaintiffs from any function or interference with the companies as officers or managers thereof and the surrender of the information and documents they have unlawfully withheld.”
Yankee alleges that González and González Castellanos acted improperly to “concentrate in themselves greater authority over the Cartel's operations than was authorized, which resulted in a prejudicial and negligent performance for the company.” It also claims that they “failed to give an accurate account of their actions, ignored formalities and requirements of corporate law, irresponsible financial decisions.”
In a claim detailed in Friday's court filing, Yankee says González hired a third party to represent El Cartel in selling the plaintiff's music catalog to Concord, which Bulletin board reported in October. It claims that the transaction was formalized by selling these rights at a price that “proved to be unreasonable, disproportionate and far below the true value”.
“Although the plaintiff signed the agreement, on the advice of this third party and the defendants, the plaintiff was not given a copy of all the contract documents and to this day does not know the true subject matter of the transaction, nor does he have detailed knowledge of what was or was not sold. was sold, nor the restrictions he may have on the use of his musical creations,” the filing states.
According to the legal filing, the massive theft of the company's funds occurred on Thursday (Dec. 12) after Yankee had already revoked the authority of González and González Castellanos and “warned that they could not conduct any transactions on behalf of El Cartel.”
“Without the plaintiff's knowledge and authorization and in violation of the requirements of the Act, a wire transfer was made, withdrawing, according to the evidence received, eighty million dollars from the entity's corporate account,” his lawyers wrote.
Bulletin board reached out to González and González Castellanos for comment, but did not receive a response by press time.
The new legal battle comes just weeks after Yankee Daddy and Gonzalez announced they were separating after 20 years of marriage.
“With a heart full of respect and honesty, I want to share some important news about my personal life,” Yankee said in a statement on his Instagram Stories on Dec. 2. “After more than two decades of marriage and after many months of trying to save my marriage, which I share with my wife, today my lawyers are responding to the divorce petition received by Mireddys.”
In addition to her role as CEO of El Cartel, González was also the reggeatón artist's manager and is widely known to have had a wide influence on Yankee's music career. As the artist previously said Bulletin board: “He's the boss. He was always the boss.”
