Big Freedia has made a career for herself as the Queen Diva, a performer whose twerking moves are as signature as the bounce music she records. The superstar born Freddie Ross, Jr., is now taking legal steps to protect her intellectual property.

As reported by NOLA.com, Freedia filed a lawsuit against a former collaborator, the California-based choreographer Wilberto Dejarnetti. Filed on November 20, the lawsuit claims “Dejarnetti’s behavior was frequently erratic, and his temperamental nature caused turmoil and strife within Mr. Ross’s team.”

Furthermore, the lawsuit alleges Dejarnetti (whom lawyers say has already been compensated for the work done with Big Freedia between 2014 and 2017) began seeking monthly royalty payments of $500 each for routines Freedia’s lawyers argue “were largely based on and derivative of traditional ‘bounce’ dance movements and other routines Mr. Ross and his dancers had been employing for years.”

“The choreographer has also claimed co-authorship of some songs, according to the suit,” reports NOLA.com’s Doug McCash of Dejarnetti. “Freedia’s lawyers state that though Dejarnetti may have been present during their recording, he had no ‘copyrightable’ role in the compositions.”

The concluding claim in the lawsuit is that Dejarnetti withheld video content he was hired to produce for Big Freedia.

Dejarnetti previously appeared on Big Freedia’s Fuse TV reality show, “Queen of Bounce.”