Timbaland has actually submitted a $15 million claim versus his previous supervisor and company supervisor, implicating the 2 executives of scams, breach of fiduciary responsibility and civil theft, to name a few claims.
In a 65-page fit submitted in Los Angeles Superior Court on Friday, Timbaland declares that the supervisor, Gary Marella, “took millions in unapproved commissions, charges, and compensations,” utilized Timbaland’s funds to pay Marella’s workers, and “falsified monetary records and interactions to hide unapproved payments” from the manufacturer.
The previous service supervisor Bruce Seckendorf, Timbaland, whose genuine name is Timothy Mosley, declares, “stopped working to pay Mosley’s home mortgage and permitted his home to reach the edge of foreclosure.”
The match declares Seckendorf’s company “stopped working to prompt pay significant federal taxes, triggering millions in charges and interest, while continuing to pay themselves, the Marella Defendants, and other specialists millions in commissions, charges, and supposed loan payments.”
“Defendants utilized their turned over authority to enhance themselves and others, hide monetary misbehavior, and diminish Timbaland’s important properties,” the match states. “Plaintiffs look for to recuperate their losses, force an accounting, and stop the continuing unapproved usage of Timbaland’s name for Defendants’ advantage.”
Per the fit, Timbaland just found out of the supposed misbehavior since he got a foreclosure notification at his home in 2015. After getting the notification, the match states, Timbaland called Seckendorf, who the manufacturer states stopped working to “plainly describe why his workplace had actually stopped working to make the home mortgage payments without notifying Mosley.”
Timbaland consequently handled independent legal counsel and monetary agents, who had actually examined the concern, “revealing unapproved payments, hidden credit-card plans, falsified interactions, concealed liabilities, and supposed loans Mosley had never ever intentionally consented to,” the match states.
“The foreclosure was not triggered merely due to the fact that Plaintiffs had no cash,” the problem states, including that the “Seckendorf Defendants hence focused on almost $900,000 in payments to Defendants and lawyers they took part in 5 months, while stopping working to spend for twelve months of home mortgage financial obligations they triggered and hid from Mosley.”
Per the fit, the 2 accuseds were ended in 2025. Seckendorf and his company didn’t instantly reacted to ask for remark. In a remark, Marella stated that “I highly contest these accusations.”
“Unfortunately, Tim is trying to move duty for his own overspending and monetary choices onto another person (once again) as he did before we handled him,” Marella stated. “When I started handling him in 2017, long after producing his most significant hits, he was currently broke and in financial obligation, had actually invested all of his cash, and was residing in a leasing. His monetary issues did not start with me. I was available in to assist reconstruct his organization. Over roughly 9 years, we produced approximately $75 million in company. Regardless of that, Tim continued costs beyond his ways, eventually needing to offer his home in 2015 due to his actions and move into a leasing in Coral Gables. Those were the effects of his own monetary choices, nobody else.”
Timbaland initially began working straight with Marella and Seckendorf in 2016 while handling monetary misbehavior claims versus his previous representation, according to the grievance. Marella is the CEO of Mono Music Group, which together with Timbaland has actually represented other hitmakers such as Poo Bear and ATL Jacob. Seckendorf is a partner at LL Business Management, which was noted on Billboard’s leading company supervisors list in 2015 and represents the similarity Feid, Pusha T, Clipse and Cirkut to name a few. Mono Music Group, LL Business Management and the company Seckendorf Hasson Reilly & & Kobay CPA’s are all co-defendants in the match.
Marella and Seckendorf had actually dealt with Timbaland throughout a duration of considerable service endeavors for the manufacturer, consisting of introducing his popular Verzuz series with Swizz Beatz throughout the pandemic and offering his brochure to Hipgnosis Songs Fund back in 2019.
Relating to Verzuz in specific, Timbaland declares that Marella took $500,000 more than he was entitled to on 2 different events connecting to $5 million payments from the endeavor. On the Hipgnosis sale, Marella took $775,000 more than his allocated 10 percent commission would’ve required, the fit states.
Tim was completely knowledgeable about the 15 percent commission I got on the Hipgnosis brochure sale,” Marella stated. “We invested more than a year and a half assisting arrange his company affairs and fix impressive concerns to make that deal possible. Calling that settlement unapproved now does not remove his understanding of the plan at the time. I guarantee it and will validate through the legal procedure. When it comes to Verzuz, he understood our management commission. His service supervisor paid us with Tim’s approval.”
Marella likewise co-founded the beat market Beatclub with Timbaland, however as the match declares, Marella “grossly mishandled” the business and dealt with Mosley as a piggy bank to fix the issues he produced. The fit declares Marella “diminished financier funds, invested business cash contrary to how he represented it would be utilized, sustained responsibilities Beatclub might not pay, stopped working to pay staff members and developers he worked with, and invested cash contrary to board constraints.”
Marella called Beatclub, “a start-up,” even more mentioning that “the ups and downs are foregone conclusion. We released the platform in 2019, raised outdoors financial investment, and together contributed more than $1 countless our own cash. In 2024, we released the majority of the personnel and needed to restore. The business’s monetary difficulties do not, on their own, develop misbehavior by anybody.”
Seckendorf, Timbaland declares, “intentionally offered considerable help through payment permissions, dispensations, and control over Plaintiffs’ monetary accounts, thus significantly allowing the misbehavior and adding to Plaintiffs’ resulting damage.”
Timbaland likewise brings claims for deceptive concealment, breach of agreement and misappropriation of name, photo and similarity.
“Defendants invested much of their professions taking advantage of Timbaland’s profession, brochure, credibility, and relationships,” the fit states, “yet left Plaintiffs with diminished possessions, concealed liabilities, pricey lawsuits, and the problem of rebuilding their own monetary affairs.”
This story was upgraded at 8:27 p.m. PST to consist of remark from Gary Marella on the claim.
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