Trauma 2 Sued

The record company was founded in 2012 and is associated with Radar Pictures, known for movies like “Spring Breakers” (Vanessa Hudgens, Selena Gomez, bikinis) and Tom Cruise’s broken vehicle “The Last Samurai.”

It is a resurrection of Trauma Records, which had a stint of success in the mid-‘90s. The record company was hit with a lawsuit in May by Filmula, the company of producer Johnny Lin. Lin won the lawsuit, which claimed that he was pressured to give Trauma 2 $1.5 million in return for 25 percent of the record company’s grosses and a seat on its board of directors.

Lin, however, claimed he never got appointed to the board because there never was one.

The companies settled the dispute in November for $1,773,048 according to the Hollywood Reporter. Now Lin is suing to get his promised $100,000 monthly payments, which he claims should have begun Jan. 22 and are arriving in an untimely manner. Trauma 2 COO Thomas van Dell told HR, “Disputes arise between business partners on occasion and as is always the case, there are two sides to every story. The suit naming the top two executives at the company in the suit personally is both shameless and an expected legal strategy.”