It appeared that Jeezy was launching the opening salvo in his legal dispute with ex-manager Solomon Fornie, claiming the man below him was financially misguided until Fornie answered the call with a countersuit sure to make heads turn and eyebrows rise. Now, according to newly unsealed court filings first received by The Jasmine Brand, Fornie is turning the tables and describing himself as not a mismanager of Jeezy’s books but a savior of them.
“I risked my finances, my credit, and my own reputation in relaunching (Jeezy’s) career from the ground up,” Fornie thundered in a filing, referring to Jeezy by his real name, Jay Jenkins. “I went from foreclosure to Forbes, and now he wants to act like I was never there.”
According to Fornie, by the time He came in, Jeezy was deep in trouble, broke, mired in lawsuits, and watching his empire spiral out of control. Fornie claims he singlehandedly paid off Jeezy’s homes, handled business payrolls, and even took out a whopping $400,000 loan to keep things running. And the kicker is that he did it all without collecting a typical manager’s commission for five years.
Instead, he says he was living on a small stipend tied to Jeezy’s contract with Avion Tequila while working off the stage to repair a brand that, by his reckoning, was close to shattered.
And so now, after carrying all that weight, Fornie claims that Jeezy wants to whip him out of the story as if he were a dusty footnote. ]This countersuit is not only about money but about recognition, repayment, and, by the sound of it, redemption.
Jeezy has long marketed himself as a self-made hustler who emerged from the trap to reach the top. But if Fornie’s account is believed, the rise may have had a silent partner riding the elevator.
The court will have the last word, but in the meantime, this tussle of narratives is already drawing back the curtain on a high-stakes partnership that has turned sour. It’s also a reminder that loyalty and money don’t mix in the music biz, much like oil and water.
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