Motown Records founder Berry Gordy has filed a $100 million libel suit against the author of a Michael Jackson biography that alleges Gordy cheated artists out of profits.
"Stuff is just made up out of the clear blue sky," the 61-year-old Gordy said of the best seller "Michael Jackson: The Magic and the Madness" by J. Randy Taraborrelli. The lawsuit was filed Thursday in state court.Taraborrelli said, "I have every confidence in my work."
"The fact that Motown mistreated its artists over the years is not news. I am just the messenger," he said.
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Gordy founded Motown in 1961 and discovered such singers as Smokey Robinson, the Supremes, the Temptations, Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder. He sold Motown for $61 million in 1988.