New
York
(ANI):
Alien
star
Sigourney
Weaver
has
been
dragged
into
a
5
million
dollar
court
battle
between
two
high-powered
Manhattan
cosmetics
executives.
Anthony
Minuto
filed
the
lawsuit
against
his
former
business
partner,
Vincent
Longo,
the
renowned
makeup
artist,
and
owner
of
cosmetics
company
Vincent
Longo
Inc.
Weaver,
60,
and
Hermes
CEO
Robert
Chavez,
who
both
have
minority
stakes
in
the
company,
are
also
defendants.
In
the
suit,
Minuto
claims
that
Longo,
who
also
previously
served
as
a
contributing
beauty
editor
at
Elle,
unceremoniously
dumped
him
from
the
company
and
refused
to
cash
out
his
25
percent
stake.
He
now
wants
nearly
5
million
dollars
in
damages
and
25
percent
of
the
company.
“Out
of
the
blue,
Vincent
wrote
me
a
letter
stating
that
my
services
were
no
longer
needed
and
he
would
not
honour
any
prior
agreement
or
writings
we
had
made
establishing
my
ownership
in
the
business," the
New
York
Post
quoted
Minuto
as
saying.
“It"s
outrageous," Minuto
said.
“I
built
and
built
and
built
the
company
up,
and
got
all
the
pieces
into
place,
and
he
[Longo]
threw
me
out.
Now
they"re
making
money.
I
tried
for
three
months
to
get
my
money
from
him,
to
no
avail,"
he
added.
A
judge
has
frozen
the
company"s
assets
pending
a
hearing
in
February.