Sinead O’Connor Shows How She Was Financially “Ass Raped” By Booking Agents
Sinead O’Connor spent this past spring on a world tour, and she’s now saying that she isn’t seeing any money from it. As Noisey points out, O’Connor has taken to Facebook to accuse her booking agent, Rita Zappador of Modus in Rebus, of defrauding her of thousands every night. On Facebook, she’s posted the photo above, a scan of a document that seems to show she got 500 Euros for a German show, while the agency got nearly 12,000 for production costs and commission. She’s also saying that they didn’t even pay her the 500 for these shows, penalizing her after she had to cancel a South American show to deal with her son’s life-threatening illness. She says that she’s filed a report with Irish police and that her extended team has “ass raped” her financially. Read O’Connor’s statements below.
Ms Rita Zappador and Modus In Rebus Booking Agents
An official complaint has been made by me to the Irish police against you, for fraud against myself personally in the amount of approximately one-hundred and twenty thousand euro, almost the entire amount I earned for the last eighteen months’ touring, which I was defrauded by you into handing over upon cancelling the South American tour due to my son’s life threatening medical condition.
Myself and my accountant were knowingly and deliberately misled by you into believing I was ‘The Assured’ in the cancellation insurance policy and was therefore legally obliged to hand over this money.
You in fact were ‘The Assured’
I did not discover this fact until almost a month ago.
I have also made an official complaint against you for attempted fraud against Sebastian McClean International Insurers (by the deliberate non-disclosure of known pre-existing conditions) while representing me.
I have also made an official complaint against you for blackmail, by your refusal to pay myself and my band for Montreux and Lorrach because I wouldn’t cooperate with you in making a fraudulent claim on your fraudulently attained insurance policy.
The fraud detection unit of An Gardai Siochana will be in touch with all concerned parties shortly.
This is now officially a police matter and I reserve all rights
These are the two children whose money you defrauded from me.
Sinead O’Connor
She paired that one with a photo of her two sons. And then, yesterday morning, she also posted this, along with that document scan:
Observe below… What I got paid for three shows in Germany, FIVE HUNDRED EURO as compared to what everyone else got paid. The last two figures on this list amount to what the agent Rita Zappador and Modus In Rebus got, €11,700.00. The €47,700.00 is the total of what my four and a half hours’ work generated. Pls note the document is page 9 of 7! This is the type of dodgy documents we are being provided with. This is the sodding insurance document !!! In the end the agent didn’t even pay me the five hundred. SHE DOCKED ME FOUR THOUSAND! So my work generated almost €48k but cost me €4k. Pls note bands do not arrange these things themselves. One’s business managers and agents do. One trusts one is not being lied to when one is seduced to go on tour by being assured of earnings. Our job is to shake our asses and sing nice. Management’s job is to fight off every cunt that wants to rip us off. MASSIVE negligence cases to be brought by me against every member of my now ex management team. Not only for the below but for several even more appalling and wreckless negligences, which have cost me hundreds of thousands of euro which I was illegally told was my obligation to pay, and it was NOT my legal obligation. In short I have been ass raped by Rita Zappador and Modus in Rebus with the full (written, and totally behind my back, without my knowledge) support of Simon Napier Bell, Bjorn De Water and my now ex accountant. ALL of whom need to lawyer up, and get ready for the fraud squad.
If there’s any truth whatsoever to what O’Connor is saying, this is some really, really bad business.