Lee's attorneys filed the suit on Wednesday (December 7) in Los Angeles and claims that while managing Lee's career, Rider "focused his efforts on having extramarital affairs, hiding them from his wife, becoming intoxicated during business meetings, physically abusing women and boasting about it, making repeated unwelcome sexual advances toward Lee, receiving fees in excess of what was provided for in his management agreement and using Lee's corporate credit card to purchase gifts for his mistress."

Also revealed in the lawsuit is another piece of information behind the departure of band co-founder Ben Moody, with the statement that "Ms. Lee was recently in an abusive relationship with Ben Moody. She has no intention of associating with any persons who engage in that sort of abusive and illegal conduct." Rider still manages Moody's career, which is described in the suit as a "conflict of interest."

According to MTV.com, the suit goes into explicit details about Rider's behavior towards Lee and towards his wife. Rider's attorney has released a statement, refuting Lee's claims, saying that "Rider has always conducted himself by the highest professional standards and conducted his business relationships with Ms. Lee in a transparent, appropriate and entirely legal fashion. That she would now suggest otherwise is appalling and untrue."

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