Ol' Dirty Bastard's Family File Lawsuit Against Production Company

The mother of Ol’ Dirty Bastard has filed a $1.8 million breach-of-contract lawsuit against a Florida-based production company alleging that the company reneged on deals foe a rap album and DVD.

Cherry Jones along with ODB’s manager Jarred Weisfeld are claiming that AGU Entertainment attempted to exploit the rappers name after backing out of a deal to release an album by Brooklyn Zoo (An ODB collective) reports AllHipHop.

Weisfeld said: "They sent me a letter stating we had less-than-fruitful discussions (and) they were terminating any future talks. Then someone got a hold of an investor packet and Dirty's name was still in there."

Weisfeld accused AGU's President David Levy of attempting to defraud him and said Levy had been involved in trouble in the 1990's.

Weisfeld believes that David Levy, President of AGU tried to defraud him using Levy’s history against him: "He stole $6 million dollars of kids money in a scam called 'Scholarscam.' He was charged by the Federal Trade Commission."

Levy has hit back saying: "I resolved it with the FTC for less than $11,000. What you read now is sensationalized. Any personal attack on me is fruitless. It's nonsense. It's frivolous. I would never have approved a deal with ODB."

AGU’S attorney Andy Peretz denied Weisfeld’s claims of fraud but did admit that ODB was mentioned in an investors pack: "ODB did appear in the investor packet, but it was literally a one-liner on the fifth page of the executive summary. There was never any intention or design by AGU to take advantage of ODB in life or in death, and it was unfortunate that it was portrayed that way."

"Hip-Hop gets a bad name and then you get these guys in corporate America, these so-called business men, and they have longer rap sheets than the rappers. These are publicly traded companies and no body tries to shut that down."