Summer Walker Faces LVRN Counterclaim Over Tour Money & Royalties
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Summer Walker‘s fight to leave LVRN now carries a new financial threat from the company she says mishandled her money.
The Atlanta label is pursuing its own breach-of-contract counterclaim while denying her accusations of fraud.
LVRN says Walker owes money from three income streams, according to a new Fulton County filing obtained and first reported by Rolling Stone.
Its claims include 15 percent of income from business opportunities it secured and 20 percent of her songwriting performance royalties.
The company also alleges Walker stopped paying its seven percent share of her 2026 Finally Over It tour proceeds after initially making those payments. It’s asking for damages to be decided at trial and dismissal of her original complaint.
“At no time has LVRN acted in bad faith, been stubbornly litigious, or caused Walker unnecessary trouble and expense,” the company says in the filing.
Walker’s attorney Keith Moten hadn’t responded to the outlet’s request for comment when Wednesday’s report appeared.
Those demands answer a case Walker brought in August over an agreement she signed in September 2017.
Her original lawsuit accused LVRN of diverting money earmarked for touring, recordings, marketing and merchandise, while concealing financial information from her.
Walker also alleged she received no money from merchandise sold through Amazon or a YouTube page using her name and likeness. She’s seeking damages and a ruling ending the agreement, making the company’s control over her career part of the dispute alongside the accounting.
LVRN’s wider business now distributes through The Orchard, although its Interscope partnerships still include both Walker and fellow singer 6lack.
Her separate fight with Interscope involves an attempt to leave her recording agreement under California’s seven-year rule.
Interscope sued in October seeking at least $50 million over recordings it says she still owes, while Walker disputes those claims.
The company’s position is that her deal requires five studio albums, with Last Day of Summer and CLEAR excluded as earlier projects. Walker’s catalog under the labels includes Over It, Still Over It and Finally Over It.
A hearing in the separate Los Angeles Interscope case is scheduled for April 15.
