Bridgetown.
Monica Fenty, the mother of international super star Rihanna will not be giving her deposition in the Barbados High Court in a lawsuit which her daughter brought against her former accountants.
Principal Crown Counsel Wayne Clarke, who was assigned to facilitate the taking of the deposition from Fenty yesterday in the High Court, told reporters that she had made arrangements to be deposed on Thursday in Washington, DC, instead of Barbados.
Last week, Chief Justice Sir Marston Gibson had ordered that overseas lawyers representing the accounting firm Berdon LLP and accountants Michael and Peter Gounis be permitted to enter Barbados to take Fenty's deposition and that she make herself available to the court.
The lawyers had filled a Without Notice Application for request for International Judicial Assistance pursuant to the Hague Convention on the taking of evidence aboard in civil or commerical matters, claiming that Fenty had refused to voluntarily appear for deposition.
The attorneys want to question Fenty because she signed the contract with Berdon LLP back in 2005 when Rihanna was still a minor.
In the lawsuit, the mega star and her tour company Tourihanna alleged that Berdon LLP failed to keep them informed of their financial position, failed to create proper concert tour budgets and generally mismanaged the finances so as to cause them to loose million of dollars.
Berdon LLP have countered that claiming that any losses Rihanna and her tour company incurred was due to their own frivolous spending.
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