By Ryan Gorman An Australian publisher and her two American business partners are locked in a bitter dispute over the royalties to the ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ trilogy. Jennifer Pedroza, of Arlington, Texas, is suing Amanda Hayward for tens of millions of dollars in profits and Christa Beebe is seeking thousands in lost wages the pair accused Hayward of taking even after she swore on her daughter’s life she would not con them. Pedroza was a partner and Beebe an employee at The Writer’s Coffee Shop, which owns the U.S. publishing rights to the erotic thriller penned by E.L. James. They filed their suit last week in Tarrant County District Court.
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Jennifer Pedroza and Christa Beebe claim Amanda Hayward conned them out of millions combined
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Pedroza was a partner in the original U.S. publisher for 'Fifty Shades of Grey' with Hayward
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Beebe was a marketing employee guaranteed a job for one year
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Both were fired without cause and not paid money owed, they claim in a lawsuit
Pedroza was never given her 25 per cent share of those profits, and @placeholder lost her guaranteed $5,000 a month from working the job she was previously guaranteed.