Sarah Hyland is reducing out her former supervisor from his reduce of her “Modern Family” paychecks … no less than based on a brand new lawsuit.
The “Modern Family” star is being sued by Richard Konigsberg, who claims he served as her private {and professional} supervisor for 15 years and helped her land her breakthrough position on the hit sitcom.
Within the lawsuit, obtained by TMZ, Richard says Sarah unceremoniously fired him in April in what he believes is an try to get out of paying him his 10% fee on a pair profitable initiatives he helped Sarah land.
For starters, Richard says he had a longstanding settlement the place Sarah would pay him 10% of all the cash she made throughout his time as her supervisor … and he says she was paying him 10% of her “Modern Family” royalties till she fired him.
Richard says when he received axed, Sarah advised him he would now not be paid fee for ‘MF’ and would solely get 10% of what she made for a theater manufacturing of ‘”Little Shop of Horrors.”
Richard goes after Sarah for damages … and he needs a declaration from the court docket that Sarah is obligated to pay him 10% on all the cash she makes from initiatives she landed throughout his tenure as her supervisor.
We reached out to Sarah’s camp … thus far no phrase again.
