Judge Denies Bid to Subpoena Muni Long’s Medical Records Amid Ugly Contract and Defamation Dispute With Ex-Managers

A federal judge has actually turned down a push from Muni Long’s ex-managers to subpoena the artist’s medical records, which are “secured by the patient-doctor/psychotherapist benefit. ”

Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn made that advancement authorities with a current order bied far amidst an unsightly disparagement sub-dispute. The overarching legal fight, for its part, looks like several other courtroom conflicts in between customers and supervisors who made the error of choosing versus putting their handle composing.

In any occasion, the face-off started back in October 2025, when management company Ebony Son Entertainment took legal action against Muni Long (genuine name Priscilla Renea Hamilton) for breach of oral agreement.

Led by Chaka Zulu and Jeff Dixon, Atlanta-headquartered Ebony Son implicated the accused artist of stopping working to pay the 20% gross earnings commission to which it was supposedly entitled under their supposed oral contract.

The method they informed (and inform) the story, the “serial grifter” Long looked for their services, paid the 20% charge at hand for a long time, and after that “brazenly chosen to renounce and unilaterally withdraw from” the plan in or around October 2024.

Unsurprisingly, the writing was on the wall prior to this supposedly abrupt split; Long is stated to have actually called out the terms “by revealing a choice to pay a portion of net profits, rather of 20% of gross profits.”

Obviously, the resulting July 2024 conference didn’t cause a friendly resolution. Post-split, nevertheless, the chances are stated to have actually continued gathering for the “Richest” artist.

The expert supposedly owes commission payments amounting to over $450,000 (plus north of $150,000 in repayments to boot), consisting of from an ASCAP offer “valued at $1 million,” an October 2024 SiriusXM efficiency for which Long was paid $70,000, and more.

Back to the at first pointed out medical records, the straightforward-enough agreement conflict deviated after Long declared “a claim for deliberate infliction of psychological distress, however consequently withdrew that claim to prevent divulging her medical records,” Judge Netburn repeated.

Underneath the supposed psychological distress and the desire to prevent offering the records, the Ebony Son principals were implicated of having actually tried to involuntarily devote Long to a psychological health center while she was struggling with a lupus flare-up.

From there, Ebony Son included a character assassination claim– and transferred to subpoena the medical facility records. Now, however, the movement to quash has actually been approved in part.

In Judge Netburn’s words, the complainants were looking for “basically all files associated with Hamilton’s treatment at the Cleveland Clinic Indian River Behavioral Health Center” in March 2024.

Per the court, Long “would have waived her benefit” had she continued with the psychological distress counterclaim, however as she “never ever launched her records before she withdrew the counterclaim … her benefit was renewed.”

“Ebony Son, furthermore, can not waive Hamilton’s advantages through its character assassination claim due to the fact that just a client can waive her opportunity by putting her frame of mind at problem,” the judge continued.

The submitting celebration will be able to “look for non-medical info from Hamilton concerning the supposed defamatory declaration and the scenarios surrounding her admission to the Clinic, to the level it would not pierce her opportunity.”

Put in a different way, Ebony Son might ask “about the scenarios of her admission to the Clinic however might not look for discovery of her medical records and treatment,” the court concluded.

With that, the progressively included case is continuing, and we’ll continue tracking the high-stakes clash from here.