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08.12.2023 - 20:49 / deadline.com
‘It’s time for change,” former Empire star Terrence Howard said today announcing he is suing CAA over allegedly screwing him financially over the hip hop soap’s blockbuster six season run. “We need accountability. We need access. We need to be able to share in the profits.”
In a press conference Friday at the office of The Cochran Firm, Howard accused his former agency of engaging in a lucrative packaging deal with the show’s creators and producers Imagine. Consequently, according to Howard and his legal team, the actor was bilked of “a much higher salary given the success of the show.”
“I trusted CAA to look after me, and they looked after themselves.”
At its height, the Taraij P. Henson co-starrer series hauled in around $100 million in advertising for Fox, this new lawsuit claims. Money that Howard thinks he helped generate in his on-screen role as ruthless hip-hop mogul Lucious Lyon. Money that Howard also believes he had a hand in generating with his behind-the-scenes work on the music and scripts for Empire over the years.
“There was so much wealth,” Howard stated today of Empire’s success and his admitted knowledge that CAA was representing multiple parties in and around the show. He went on to say he assumed “that everybody would share and everything would work out fine.” The ex-Iron Man actor added Friday that he was being paid $350,000 an episode starting in Empire’s second and very well watched season.
Howard also noted that despite his central role on Empire, and his supposed work BTS, he “never received the compensation as a producer or any of those things that are immediately given or asked for by agents of white actors.” Citing Howard’s pedigree of awards nominations and acclaim, attorney Carlos Moore
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Terrence Howard is suing his former agency CAA over his Empire salary, alleging underpayment due to racist bias.
Pat Saperstein Deputy Editor “Empire” star Terrence Howard is suing CAA for breach of fiduciary duty, saying the talent agency allegedly asked him to take a lower salary for the popular show. He outlined his claims at a Friday press conference. Howard played music mogul Lucious Lyon for six seasons of the Fox drama, produced by Imagine Entertainment and what was then 20th Century Fox TV.
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