Muni Long's former managers blocked from medical records in commissions case
A federal magistrate judge has blocked Muni Long's former managers from obtaining her medical records in a dispute over commissions and contested claims about a stay in a mental health facility.
Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn issued the order on Thursday, Oct. 8. She ruled the records are privileged and off limits, whether requested from the treatment facility or from Long herself, whose legal name is Priscilla Renea Hamilton. Billboard
The managers can still seek non-medical information about the circumstances of admission. They cannot obtain records or details of care. That protection held.
The case centres on money and two very different accounts of what happened in March 2024. Chaka Zulu and Jeff Dixon, of the management organisation Ebony Son Entertainment, sued Long in October 2025. They claimed she dismissed them and then refused to pay more than $600,000 in commissions, a claim brought as breach of contract.
Long countersued in January. She claimed Zulu and Dixon forced her to remain at Cleveland Clinic Indian River Behavioral Health Center in Florida against her will. In earlier public accounts of the allegation, she said she had needed treatment for a lupus flare-up and was instead placed in the behavioural health facility.
That involuntary-commitment allegation is no longer part of her formal case. Long later withdrew the counterclaim that contained it. Zulu and Dixon then added a defamation claim, a legal claim that false public statements caused harm, alleging that Long's public statements about being committed against her will were false.
To fight that defamation claim, the managers sought a subpoena, a legal order requiring documents to be handed over, covering essentially all documents linked to the stay. The request included diagnosis, evaluation and treatment materials held by the clinic.
Netburn rejected that broad request. She held that Long's medical privilege was reinstated because she withdrew the counterclaim that had put her mental health at issue before releasing any of the records. In other words, the court found she had not given up that protection.
What makes this stand out is the narrow line the judge drew for what comes next. The managers can ask questions about what happened around the admission itself. They cannot use the lawsuit to open her treatment file.
