Ex-Friend Taking Matt LeBlanc to Trial

Judge rules that Friends star's ex-business manager has enough evidence for breach-of-contract lawsuit to move forward

How you doin'? If you ask Matt LeBlanc, not so good.

A Los Angeles judge has ruled that a breach-of-contract lawsuit brought against the erstwhile Friends star by his ex-business manager can proceed to trial.

Superior Court Judge Harold I. Cherness shot down a motion by LeBlanc's legal team seeking to dismiss the complaint filed last August by Camille Cerio, who claims she's owed over $1 million in commissions.

Although Team LeBlanc insists Cerio received more than $200,000 in payments, her attorney, Alan Harris, said that amount was a pittance, since the actor's royalties on Friends and Joey alone generate royalties over $100 million.

"This was something unheard of in the history of television," Harris told the judge of LeBlanc's windfall.

Cerio managed LeBlanc's career beginning in 1994, when he first hit big on the now classic NBC sitcom. She alleges in her suit that LeBlanc agreed to pay her 15 percent of his earnings from all pilots and series spinoffs "derived" from Friends. But the checks stopped coming in 2000, four years before Friends ended its run.

No immediate comment from either side. A trial date has been set for Sept. 22.