Judge Blocks Muni Long's Ex-Managers Chaka Zulu And Jeff Dixon From Subpoenaing Her Medical Records
A federal magistrate judge in New York blocked Muni Long's ex-managers Chaka Zulu and Jeff Dixon from subpoenaing her 2024 behavioral health clinic records. They can ask about how she was admitted, but not her diagnosis or treatment. Their $600K+ commissions and defamation suit continues.
Muni Long just won a big round in the war with her former managers.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn ruled in an Oct. 8 order that Chaka Zulu and Jeff Dixon's Ebony Son Entertainment cannot get the singer's records from Cleveland Clinic Indian River Behavioral Health Center, where she stayed in March 2024. The subpoena had sought essentially everything tied to her treatment there, including her diagnosis, evaluation, treatment and reasons for admission.
The judge said those records are protected by doctor-patient and psychotherapist privilege, whether the managers try to get them from the clinic or from Long herself. Ebony Son was ordered to send the ruling to the clinic and tell it to disregard the subpoena. The managers can still question Long about the non-medical circumstances of her admission.
Long, whose legal name is Priscilla Renea Hamilton, had put her mental health at issue when she countersued in January with an intentional infliction of emotional distress claim. But she withdrew that claim before ever releasing her records. "Hamilton never released her records before she withdrew the counterclaim, and therefore her privilege was reinstated," Netburn wrote. She added that privilege holds "even if, as Ebony Son contends, her medical records are 'the best' evidence to prove the falsity of Hamilton's statements."
Zulu and Dixon, best known for their long run with Ludacris and Disturbing Tha Peace, sued Long in October 2025, claiming she owes more than $600,000 in commissions and expenses after firing them. They called her a "serial grifter." Long's team called the claims unfounded and said the same team took her phone and "sought to have her involuntarily committed to a mental health facility" while she was suffering a Lupus flare-up. Last month, the managers added a defamation claim over that statement, calling it "a blatant lie." Their breach of contract, unjust enrichment and defamation claims are still active, and Long is accusing them of breaching their fiduciary duty.
Sources: Billboard (Bill Donahue, obtained the order, Oct. 12, 2026); Complex (Alex Ocho, reviewed the order, Oct. 13, 2026); AllHipHop (Oct. 14, 2026). Photo: Gilbert Flores / WWD (Sergio Hudson show, New York, Sept. 13, 2026).