Gloria Gaynor's ex-producer claims singer is being 'ill-advised' after she sues him for $2million

Gloria Gaynor’s erstwhile shaper has warned the disco fable is being ‘taken vantage of’ aft she accused him of wrongfully claiming the rights to a catalogue of her biggest hits.

Gaynor, 81, champion known for her anthem I Will Survive, claims she is owed $2 cardinal aft Joel Diamond allegedly exploited her copyrights for decades and failed to wage royalties.

Diamond, besides 81, has falsely claimed ownership of 8 of her songs based connected a 1983 grounds deal, according to a suit filed successful the Southern District of New York connected July 26.

The filing claims that ‘at nary clip did Gaynor constitute a opus with Diamond,’ and that ‘to her knowledge, Diamond has ne'er been a songwriter.’

But Diamond claims helium has impervious to amusement that helium does successful information ain the rights to 7 of Gaynor’s 9 masters – and adjacent co-wrote a way with her.

He believes the ‘baseless allegations’ person been ‘concocted by idiosyncratic different than Gloria successful bid to poison’ their decades-long friendship.

‘For implicit 40 years, Joel Diamond had a close, idiosyncratic relationship with Gloria Gaynor that went good beyond a specified concern relationship,’ his typical Bryan Freedman told DailyMail.com. ‘They shared household events and beingness milestones unneurotic and developed a precise heavy bond.

‘Gloria would adjacent nonstop personalized video messages to Joel connected his birthday.

‘It’s genuinely disappointing that idiosyncratic would effort to instrumentality vantage of Gloria by having her motion connected to a suit with truthful galore untruths which perfectly has nary merit.'

They continued: ‘It is wide that these baseless allegations person been concocted by idiosyncratic different than Gloria successful bid to poison her narration with Joel, arsenic good arsenic Joel’s different relationships.’

A root added that Gaynor is being 'ill-advised.' 

Gaynor was introduced to Diamond done her past hubby Linwood Simon, who ran Linwood Maxwell Music. Both parties entered into a signaling statement ‘sometime successful 1983,’ according to the lawsuit.

‘Defendants person maintained this was a enactment for hire,’ the suit reads. ‘Gaynor has denied that immoderate enactment created, recorded and performed by her was a enactment for hire.’

A enactment for hire, successful US copyright law, is simply a enactment that is taxable to copyright and is created by employees arsenic portion of their job. 

As a result, Diamond claims helium owns the rights to Gaynor’s tracks Eeny-Meeny-Mack-A-Rack, Chain of Whispers, Strive, Bull’s Eye, Only successful A Love Song, I’ve Been Watching You and More Than Enough – which helium co-wrote with Gaynor.

The grounds shaper said helium has ne'er claimed to ain the rights to her 1978 azygous You’re All I Need to Get By, which was included successful her filing. The way was written by Ashford & Simpson.

DailyMail.com has been shown a postulation of authoritative documents for respective tracks successful question including More Than Enough.

A BMI steadfast clearance form, dated September 4, 1984, shows Diamond and Gaynor stock a 50-50 split. His sanction is besides connected the archetypal vinyl grounds statement and connected a copyright registration certificate signed October 1984.

Gaynor is simply a co-plaintiff with Robin Randall, a songwriter who alleges that Diamond has 'fraudulently claimed ownership of copyrighted works owned by Robin and wrongfully, and without authority, entered into licensing agreements thereby.'

Randall is simply a composer who collaborated with her parent Judithe arsenic portion of a two-person songwriting team. Judithe died connected April 3, 2002.

The suit claims Diamond ‘fraudulently induced, and different wrongfully caused Judithe Randall to motion implicit her ownership rights to galore copyrighted works.’

This allegedly took spot successful aboriginal 2001, not agelong aft Judithe was admitted to a intelligence instauration and aboriginal diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

‘Joel Diamond visited Judithe Randall during which clip respective agreements were signed,’ the suit claims. ‘It is believed Judithe Randall was coerced into signing not lone her sanction but Robin Randalls.’

A root adjacent to Diamond told DailyMail.com: ‘Joel ne'er met with Judithe Randall successful person, nor did helium ever talk with her during the past days of her beingness truthful it’s intolerable helium could person coerced her into signing her sanction arsenic Randall claims.

‘Additionally, Joel ne'er listed himself arsenic co-writer connected immoderate songwriter statement oregon copyright registration.’

Gaynor and Randall are seeking royalties they judge they are owed arsenic good arsenic a termination of their respective contracts with Diamond.

‘Since the inception of the alleged signaling agreement, contempt Gaynor’s repeated requests for an accounting thereof, defendants person failed to wage immoderate royalties, supply transparency arsenic to who Gaynor’s euphony was licensed to oregon immoderate objection that Gaynor’s euphony was protected,’ the suit reads.

‘Defendants utterly failed to unrecorded up to their obligations to support Plaintiffs apprised of however their enactment was being licensed and used, portion wrongfully exacting economical benefits they were not entitled to by exploiting that precise relationship.’ 

Diamond and companies controlled by him, Joel Diamond Entertainment, Silver Blue Productions and Ocean Blue Music, are each listed arsenic defendants successful the filing. 

Vivian Rivera-Drohan, Gaynor’s lawyer told DailyMail.com that Gaynor is determined to get what she believes she is owed successful unpaid royalties.

‘If fixed the opportunity, we are going to beryllium our allegations with the grounds we have,' she said successful a statement. 'Gloria is adamant that she ne'er wrote a opus with Joel. She wrote More Than Enough by herself. There is nary mode helium co-wrote it. 

'She has besides ne'er seen a declaration to ‘prove’ helium was progressive successful the writing. Joel has not produced 1 contract. 

'She wants him to relationship for what is owed to her. She afloat acknowledges the relation helium played successful producing respective of her songs – but this suit is astir proving helium did not constitute immoderate of them, has not paid her the close royalties and has failed to beryllium transparent.’ 

Diamond is two-time Grammy Award nominee and has produced 47 Gold and Platinum recordings arsenic good arsenic implicit 100 Billboard Charted recordings.

He has produced for singers including Engelbert Humperdinck and David Hasselhoff. 

His website lists him arsenic a songwriter connected tracks for Tom Jones, Phoebe Cates, Bill Medley, Tommy James and Jon Secada among others. 

His lawyer is calling for a ‘prompt dismissal’ of the suit and insists Diamond wants ‘nothing but the champion for his person Gloria.’

DailyMail.com has contacted Gaynor and Randall's lawyer for comment.