'Game of Thrones' Star Sues Manager

Ser Jaime Lannister lost his hand in Game of Thrones, but the actor who portrays him says his ex-manager is trying to take an arm and a leg in real life.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau is suing Jill Littman for fraud, claiming she's seeking commissions she isn't owed.

The actor says Littman, and Impression Entertainment, tried to get him to sign a written agreement early in their relationship but he preferred they operate under an oral contract. Under that deal, beginning in 2006, Coster-Waldau would pay Littman 10 percent of his pay for employment obtained while she represented him.

Now, the two are fighting over whether that pay was to continue after their relationship ended. Shortly after Coster-Waldau fired Littman he stopped payment on a commission check, eventually leading Impression to initiate arbitration proceedings.

Littman cites written deals from 2011 and 2014 and claims her commission was to be paid even if they stopped working together.

Coster-Waldau says Littman is citing "sham documents," which he signed believing their sole purpose was supporting Impression's sponsorship of his O-1 visa.

"Indeed, the only real factual dispute in this case is the timing of the Defendants' dishonesty," writes attorney Michael Plonsker, speculating whether Impression always intended to hold the actor to the terms of the agreement and misled him or that it decided to do so after he fired the firm. "In either case, Coster-Waldau is entitled to a declaration that the Sham Documents are not and have never been binding contracts, as well as compensatory and punitive damages for Defendants' disloyal and fraudulent conduct."

Read the rest of this article at The Hollywood Reporter.

Game of Thrones also stars Lena Headey.