A lawsuit has been filed against gospel artist Kirk Franklin and GospoCentric to the sum of $5.5 million pounds

KIRK FRANKLIN, the gospel music superstar, and the record company GospoCentric have been named in a 10-count $5.5 million lawsuit filed by members of the Family. In the suit, filed on May 2nd at Los Angeles Superior Court, Family members Dalon and Carrie "Mousie" Collins, LaKeisha Grandy, Terry Pace and John Pace charge breach of contract, fraud and civic conspiracy among the 10 counts. "It grieves us that things have come to this," said Tabetha Thorpe, who has managed Dalon Collins for a little over a year and has more recently started managing Grandy, Pace and Collins' wife. "Our goal is not to try and get out of this particular contract as a group. We're just asking for some things we believe are due us pursuant to the contract."

Aside from punitive and compensatory damages, the suit seeks a financial accounting of The Nu Nation Project', Franklin's double platinum-selling album on which members of the Family perform. "We were very concerned in filing this lawsuit because we didn't want people to think our testimony was a lie," Thorpe continued. "We contemplated the ramifications, and as Christians, we're supposed to be role models for non-believers but at the end of the day we had no choice but to move forth in this matter."