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Julie Bowen Reflects connected Helping Sarah Hyland Amid Abusive Relationship
Sarah Hyland's erstwhile manager is taking ineligible action.
The Modern Family alum's former manager Richard Konigsberg filed a suit Sept. 30, alleging she fired him earlier this year after 15 years to debar paying him 10 percent of each the wealth she made during their clip moving together.
Konigsberg claims successful the suit, obtained by E! News, that his relation arsenic Hyland's manager went beyond the emblematic statement of helping physique a client's career as helium "met Hyland's concern and idiosyncratic needs, doing everything from introducing her to endowment agents and concern managers and publicists, to readying her backstage events and helping her navigate idiosyncratic and familial relationships."
E! News has reached retired to reps for some Hyland and Konigsberg but has not heard back.
According to Konigsberg's lawsuit, helium and Hyland met successful 2008 erstwhile helium agreed to assistance her arsenic she moved from New York to Los Angeles to further her acting career. Around "January oregon February 2009, Konigsberg and [Hyland] entered into an oral statement providing that Konigsberg would supply idiosyncratic and nonrecreational absorption services to [her] successful speech for a 10% committee connected each projects sourced portion the parties worked together."
For 15 years, Konigsberg had been receiving 10 percent of the 33-year-old's professional earnings, including connected residuals from her Modern Family role, which she booked in 2009 while the 2 were moving together. However, opening successful February 2024, helium claims she "breached the oral agreement" by not paying him what helium believes helium was due.
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In the suit, Konigsberg claims that Hyland subsequently fired him successful April 2024, saying that helium was "not entitled to immoderate further commissions for projects sourced during their clip together," with the objection being the interest she earned from her caller relation arsenic Audrey successful the off-Broadway accumulation of Little Shop of Horrors.
Konigsberg suit's asks for harm payments from Hyland, arsenic good arsenic 10 percent of immoderate "business deals oregon arrangements" that were made betwixt January 2009 and April 2024—including Modern Family residuals, her payments from Little Shop of Horrors and her upcoming film The Token Groomsman, arsenic good her concern with the supplement company Sourse Inc. "until the decease of Konigsberg oregon [Hyland], whichever is first."
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He is besides asking for Hyland—who is married to Bachelor Nation's Wells Adams—to cover the outgo of the suit and immoderate different payments the tribunal "deems proper."
Detailing their formerly adjacent dynamic, Konigsberg said Hyland trusted his judgment, and helium went supra and beyond for her during their clip together, helping her with "matters of each types successful her idiosyncratic life-finding her a dentist, a housecleaner, and adjacent a roommate." He added that he also threw her a 24th day party in 2014.
"In short," the suit continued, "Konigsberg worked tirelessly to beryllium determination for Hyland successful immoderate mode she needed successful her idiosyncratic and nonrecreational lives."
Hyland has yet to talk retired publically connected the lawsuit.
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