Edery was eventually sacked from his employment, claiming he was blacklisted from the business, and he never got the money.
Edery’s attorney told reporters, “He just never pays,” referring to the scheme as “a script” that Kingston used to control vendors. Turner and Kingston had already been sued for similar practices.
They settled a complaint concerning unpaid personalized watches in 2015 for $356,000. They were obliged to reimburse a jeweler in New York $301,000 in 2018 after defrauding the business of nine products.
Kingston became the first artist born in the 1990s to reach the top of the Billboard Hot 100 list with his 2007 hit song “Beautiful Girls,” which peaked at number one when he was only 17. By 2022,
The music video for the reggae-infused pop tune had received over a billion views on YouTube, and the song remained at the top of the charts for four weeks, becoming a global phenomenon.
