Guy Sebastian’s Former Manager Titus Day Found Not Guilty on Four Charges: Report
On Tuesday, July 15th, the NSW District Court returned a partial verdict, finding Day not guilty of four counts of embezzlement.
Titus Day, the former manager of Guy Sebastian, has been found not guilty on four charges in a drawn-out legal dispute over missing monies.
NSW Police arrested Day at his Sydney home back in 2020 for allegedly defrauding the original Australian Idol of more than $600,000 in royalties and revenue over a seven-year period.
As the trial rumbled on, both sides issued claims and counter-claims over commissions.
Day pleaded not guilty, but, several years ago, a jury ultimately found him guilty of 34 of the 49 charges.
The case has a new development.
On Tuesday, July 15th, the NSW District Court returned a partial verdict, finding Day not guilty of four counts of embezzlement, News.com.au reports. The jury was told to continue to deliberate on the remaining counts.
Reporting from inside the Australian music business since '94.
According to the News Corp-owned title, those four counts relate to allegations that Day embezzled over $113,000 worth of Sebastian’s performance fees relating to a Big Bash game, a wedding, a corporate gig for Harvey Norman and an ambassadorship with Dreamworld.
Judge Alister Abadee this week gave the jury a direction that they could consider an 11-1 verdict on the remaining counts.
Day and Sebastian worked together for over a decade, but parted ways in 2017 with the pop star later launching action when he noticed “some disparities in payments,” according to a statement issued by his reps.
Sebastian last year split with his manager of eight years, Jennifer Fontaine. Their relationship, however, very much remains intact.
The singer and songwriter has a career-long label relationship with Sony Music.
The music major signed the singer back in 2003, after he was crowned the first Australian Idol. Since then, he’s been one of Sony Music’s frontline domestic artists, selling more than four million albums and landing six No. 1 singles, the most by any Australian male artist in ARIA history.
Sebastian’s ninth and most recent album T.R.U.T.H., debuted at No. 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart 2020, his third leader following Just As I Am (December 2003) and Armageddon (December 2012).
A 10th studio album, 100 Times Around the Sun, is due out August 8th.
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