Sarah Hyland’s ex-manager slammed her in their fight over alleged unpaid commissions and revealed his plan to seek sanctions against the actress, In Touch can exclusively report.
On February 6, Sarah’s former rep, Richard Konigsberg, from RK Management, filed an update in his lawsuit against Sarah, 34.
In the filing, obtained by In Touch, Richard said he filed the suit to, “enforce his right to receive agreed-upon commissions from [Sarah] and her loan-out company for his management of her over the course of 15 years.”
He added, “[Sarah] had refused to pay commissions already owed — and made clear she would not be paying commissions that would later be owed, including for Modern Family and Sourse Inc.”
Sarah starred as Haley Dunphy on Modern Family, which ran from 2009 to 2020.
In the suit, Richard said he was owed 10 percent of Sarah’s income.
Richard said, “[Sarah] had the right to terminate her longstanding professional relationship with [Richard], but not to refuse to pay what she owes.”
In the suit, Richard said Sarah cut ties with him in 2024 and stopped paying him commissions owed.
As In Touch first reported, Sarah demanded the lawsuit be put on pause after she filed a complaint with the California Labor Commissioner.
She claimed that Richard, at times, acted as a talent agent for her despite not being licensed to be a talent agent.
Sarah said that, “a controversy has arisen between [Sarah] and [Richard], and [Sarah] seeks a determination and declaration by the Labor Commissioner that the alleged agreement between [Sarah] and [Richard] is permeated with illegality.”
She claimed Richard had “in fact, solicited and procured and/or attempted to solicit and procure work for [her] as an artist in violation of the talent agencies act.”
Sarah claimed that for several years, Richard “collected illegal commissions” from her.
The actress’ lawyer argued, “The damages suffered by [Richard], if any, were directly and proximately caused by the acts, omissions, carelessness, or negligence of [Richard]. [Richard’s] recovery, if any, should be diminished to the extent that his alleged damages are attributable to his own acts, omissions, carelessness, or negligence.”
In regard to her petition against him, Richard claimed Sarah has only made “vague allegations” that he acted as a talent agent without having a license to do so.
He added, “[Sarah] doesn’t (and can’t) identify anything [Richard] did concerning the four projects identified in [Richard’s] complaint that would constitute improper ‘solicitation’ or ‘procurement,’ nor does she identify anything he did that was improper on any project during their 15-year relationship.”
He said, “She just makes general, conclusory statements about [Richard] having somehow solicited or procured work. As [Richard] has pointed out, [Sarah] was represented by William Morris Agency/William Morris Endeavor, a licensed talent agency, the entire time [Richard] managed her, and by entertainment transactional counsel for all but one project during [Richard’s] tenure.”
Richard said Sarah’s allegations “lack any merit” and accused her of filing the petition with the labor commission as a “bad faith delay tactic.” He said he intends to request that the labor commission petition be dismissed and that “sanctions be awarded.” Sarah has yet to respond.
On February 21, the judge presiding over the case granted Sarah’s request to put Richard’s lawsuit on hold until her petition with the labor commissioner is resolved.
