Mogul Vision sues Universal for $25 million over Gigi Perez deal
A company run by manager Josh Marshall has sued Universal Music Group for at least $25 million over the recording career of singer Gigi Perez.
Mogul Vision LLC filed the case against UMG Recordings Inc on 30 September 2026 in Los Angeles Superior Court, according to court coverage LawCommentary. Perez herself is not named as a defendant. The filing does not accuse her of wrongdoing.
The lawsuit alleges that Marshall discovered Perez and championed her signing, then lost out when her career took off Billboard. It accuses UMG of breaching its contract with Mogul Vision and keeping for itself proceeds from that success. UMG has not yet publicly responded in the reports to date.
The filing traces the dispute to summer 2021. It says Marshall brought Perez to Interscope Records after her song “Sometimes (Backwood)” went viral on TikTok. Interscope staff were initially uninterested, the suit claims, until Marshall persuaded label head John Janick and A&R executive Nicole Wyskoarko to sign her. A&R, or artists and repertoire, is the department that finds and develops new acts.
In September 2021, Mogul Vision and Interscope signed a joint-venture deal, the suit says. That is a shared label arrangement where costs and profits are split. Records would carry a Mogul Vision/Interscope Records credit.
The terms described in the filing were generous. Mogul Vision would receive 50 percent of Interscope’s profits from Perez’s music and 50 percent ownership of certain rights, including rights in specified recordings. The deal also gave Mogul Vision the option to take over Interscope’s share if Interscope decided to stop acting as record label for an artist.
Interscope cut ties with Perez in 2023, according to the suit. That came after her EP ‘How to Catch a Falling Knife’. At that point, the filing says, she still owed four more albums under the joint-venture deal. UMG is the parent owner of both Interscope Records and Island Records.
The scale of what followed is central to the money claim. The lawsuit states Perez’s music has been streamed more than 3.1 billion times on Spotify alone. It estimates more than 5 billion streams across all platforms. Local coverage of the filing described her single “Sailor Song” as having explosive success MyNewsLA.
Mogul Vision is seeking at least $25 million in damages. It is also asking the court to rule that it owns, or is entitled to ownership rights in, certain Perez music.
What makes this stand out is the timing. The claim is not about whether Perez became a major streaming act. It is about who should share in the proceeds when that breakthrough comes after a label has walked away.
