A judge’s ruling might cost “Frasier” star Kelsey Grammer $2 million.
The TV celebrity was ordered to pay $2,034,391 in commissions he owes Artists Agency. The agency says Grammer stopped paying commissions after he left for another agency in 1998, commissions which stemmed from getting the actor his gig on the hit NBC show “Frasier.”
Grammer, however, says that the agency didn’t earn those commissions and that he no longer needed to pay since he severed his longtime relationship with the agency. But U.S. District Court Judge Dean D. Pregerson thought otherwise and ordered Grammer and his Gramnet Inc. to pay up. By law, Grammer has the right to appeal the ruling.
The judge also ordered Grammer‘s former agent, William Morris Agency, to cough up $82,554 to Artists Agency as well. The William Morris Agency got pulled into the suit over commissions arbitrators found Grammer paid to the agency that should have gone to his former reps.
