The Hollywood accountants whose job it is to uncover financial wrongdoing are now being sued for that themselves. The producers of the 1990s TV sitcom Sister, Sister have filed a $5 million lawsuit against accounting firm Sills & Gentille and parent Green Hasson & Janks alleging professional negligence. Since "Hollywood accounting" is perpetually a big issue in town, auditors play an important yet often overshadowed role for such profit participants as producers and actors. In a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, Fred Shafferman, Depasse Jones Entertainment, Swany Inc. and Giggling Goose Prods. raise questions about what happened
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- 8/16/2012
- by Eriq Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Companies run by Suzanne dePasse and other producers have filed suit in Los Angeles Superior Court against accounting firm Green Hasson Janks. They allege professional negligence in auditing and calculating profit participation from the TV series Sister, Sister. You can read the suit here. It alleges that between 1992 and 1994, producers Suzanne dePasse, Gary Gilbert, Sy Rosen and Fred Shafferman entered into individual contracts with Paramount to each receive a percentage of adjusted gross profits from Sister, Sister. The four in 2001 jointly hired accounting firm Sills & Adelmann which is now part of Green Hasson Janks to perform audits of studio accounting on their behalf. The participants allege they eventually discovered that a full audit had never been completed even after several years. The four participants claim they have incurred a loss of $5 million or more in profit participation as a result of negligence by the accounting firm. Sister Sister aired on...
- 8/16/2012
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
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