Ex-Creed Singer Accused of Bad Faith
In a breach-of-contract complaint filed this month in Florida, Jeffrey E. Cameron accuses Stapp of refusing to reimburse him for $60,000 in payments made to a California doctor.
The lawsuit surfaced Tuesday on TheSmokingGun.com. Per the Website, Cameron works for the management company that handles Stapp.
In the complaint, Cameron says that from April-July 2002 he handled Stapp's M.D. bills for unspecified "certain medical treatments."
Cameron is seeking repayment of the reputedly owed $60,000, plus extras (court costs, interest, etc.).
Through his office, Cameron's attorney declined comment Wednesday. A message left with Stapp's record label seeking comment was not immediately returned.
In the small world that is show biz department, the doctor referred to in the Stapp lawsuit is the same doctor whom Ozzy Osbourne has accused of making him wobbly through too many pills.
Dr. David Kipper is a Beverly Hills-based physician and surgeon. Per a complaint filed with the Medical Board of California, Osbourne says he sought out Kipper in 2002 to help him kick a prescription-drug habit.
But instead of getting cleaned up, Osbourne claims he got zonked out on a Kipper-prescribed regimen of Dexedrine, Valium, Zyprexa and other brand-name drugs.
Per the state medical board's Website, Kipper currently retains his license to doctor.
Kipper's attorney, John Harwell, said Wednesday he was unaware of his client's mention in the Stapp lawsuit. He said he couldn't comment on the status of the Osbourne complaint.
In 2003, Stapp and his Creed kind were sued by four fans who found the singer's performance lacking at a Chicago-area concert. Stapp, their complaint said, "was so intoxicated and/or medicated that he was unable to sing the lyrics of a single Creed song." The lawsuit was later dismissed.
Creed formally parted ways in June after eight years, three best-selling albums (My Own Prison, Human Clay, Weathered) and one Grammy (earned by Stapp and Mark Tremonti for the hit, "With Arms Wide Open").
Stapp, 31, has a new song, "Relearn Love," on the just-released The Passion of the Christ album tie-in, Original Songs Inspired by the Film.
In August, Stapp told ChristianMusicToday.com he wrote the song after going through "a lot of personal things."
"I started making proper decisions, getting things in order," Stapp told the Website. "...I was looking for direction for what God wanted me to do--and that's when I got a call about The Passion."





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