Fifty Shades of Grey publisher ordered to pay $11.5m in royalties to teacher

Jennifer Pedroza of Texas sued former business partner Amanda Hayward of defrauding her of money Writer’s Coffee Shop earned from popular erotic novels

A Texas judge has ordered the publisher of EL James’s bestselling trilogy Fifty Shades of Grey to pay $11.5m to a Fort Worth elementary schoolteacher who the court ruled was defrauded of her share of royalties.

Jennifer Pedroza of Arlington, Texas filed suit in May 2014 against her former business partner, Amanda Hayward. The two worked for the Writer’s Coffee Shop, the e-publishing company that first published the erotic novels that would go on to become bestsellers.

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