‘Drag Race’ Star Adore Delano is Suing Management & Record label for $3.5 Million
TMZ has reported that RuPaul’s Drag Race star Adore Delano is suing his management company and record label for “embezzling the bulk of the $2.5 million” he earned at various appearances and concerts since 2014.
Allegedly, the 27-year old wound up with $300,000 for himself, after Producer Entertainment Group took an abnormally large portion of the cut.
Additionally, Adore claims the company vowed to “destroy his career,” according to legal documents, after which the I.C.U. singer (born Daniel Noriega) filed documents seeking $2.5 million in punitive damages and $1 million in lost wages.
That’s some heavy coin!
Producer Entertainment Group released both of Adore’s studio albums: 2014’s Till Death Do Us Party and 2016’s After Party.
Adore appeared on the seventh season of American Idol, as Daniel Noriega. Six years later, the queen made it to the final three on the sixth season of RuPaul’s Drag Race — which can now be viewed on VH1 every Friday (check your local listings).
Adore became the first queen to ever quit the show during the second season of RuPaul’s Drag Race: All Stars.