Summer Walker Sues LVRN for Fraud, Says Her Label and Management Company Hid and Pocketed Her Money

Summer Walker is not only defending herself in court. She is also on the attack, and her target is the company that signed her.

A 10-page complaint, filed August 28 but not reported until this week, accuses Love Renaissance, better known as LVRN, of fraudulent concealment, breach of fiduciary duty, and breach of contract.

Billboard and Rolling Stone obtained the filing, and Complex also reviewed it. The singer says LVRN improperly kept money from her recordings, tours, marketing, and merchandise, and charged its own operating expenses to budgets meant for her career.

She is asking for damages and a ruling that her September 15, 2017 agreement with the company is “void and unenforceable.”

Two allegations stand out. Walker claims she was denied revenue from Amazon pages selling merchandise with her name and likeness, and from a YouTube channel featuring her name and likeness.

Her lawyers describe the contract as giving LVRN “particularly oppressive and extensive rights” and “controlling influence” over her, including exclusive control of her touring, merchandise, and name, image, and likeness rights.

Her attorney, Keith Moten, put the case in personal terms. “Summer has given LVRN iconic music, and some of the best years of her life,” he said.

“In return, LVRN has breached Summer’s trust in them and has failed Summer in numerous ways.” He added that, beyond damages, the main goal is a court order releasing her from the LVRN deal. These are Walker’s allegations, and LVRN has not publicly responded to them in the reports reviewed.

The timing connects the two cases. According to Billboard, she filed the LVRN suit four days after sending Interscope her notice invoking California’s seven-year statute. Interscope then sued her for at least $50 million on October 9, claiming she still owes two albums and an EP.

Walker signed a joint deal with LVRN and Interscope in 2017, and LVRN’s agreement also made it her manager, which is why the same relationship appears on both sides of the fight.

The two cases are different in shape. In the Interscope case, Walker is the defendant, and the dispute is about whether she can leave without paying.

In the LVRN case, she is the plaintiff, and she claims the people managing her career took money that belonged to her. A win in one would not automatically settle the other, and neither has been decided yet.

Walker has had three albums in the top two of the Billboard 200 and sold out arenas in 2026, so the case is as much about who benefits from that success as it is about her contracts. Her lawyers say the answer, at least in part, is that she did not.