Black Coffee legal wrangle over sports car and commissions
A Black Coffee legal wrangle with copyright lawyer Graeme Gilfillian has been confirmed by SA’s most successful house DJ.
The Black Coffee legal issue has to do with alleged commission owed to the lawyer who asserts that instead of paying him, Black Coffee ‘bought himself a Maserati or Aston Martin’ instead.
The amount in questions seems to be R 600,000, certainly not enough for a sports car of the calibre mentioned.
How the Black Coffee legal dispute came about
Graeme Gilfillian has a company called Nisa who worked with Black Coffee between 2005 and 2014. One of the deals the Sunday World asserts was clinched by Nisa was a Vodacom sponsorship deal worth R 6 million.
Allegedly Gilfillian is still awaiting his 10% commission on this deal and because he has not been paid the lawyer is now refusing to release files that belong to Soulistic Music – Black Coffee’s record label.
Although the details are all a little murky the lawyer did confirm to Sunday World that he would not hand over the files until he was paid but did not want to disclose any further details on the matter.
Black Coffee is now suing Nisa to try get the 60 files which pertain to artist contracts and other confidential documents owned by Soulistic Music back from Gilfillian, who, according to the Sunday World, told Black Coffee to ‘go to hell.’
