{"id":852460,"date":"2026-08-12T09:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T09:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/852460\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T09:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T09:32:11","slug":"guy-sebastian-and-former-manager-titus-day-reach-settlement-in-legal-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/852460\/","title":{"rendered":"Guy Sebastian and former manager Titus Day reach settlement in legal battle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pop star Guy Sebastian’s former manager Titus Day has admitted he failed to pass on money owed to the singer and apologised for his actions, after the pair reached a settlement in a nearly decade-long legal battle.<\/p>\n

In a statement issued after the confidential settlement, Mr Day said that during the 11-and-a-half years he was Sebastian’s manager, he “made a number of regrettable decisions which have had painful consequences”.<\/p>\n

“Looking back on the latter half of the time when I was managing Guy’s career, I can see that I had become a poor steward of Guy’s income, including income that my company continued to receive after Guy left my management company in 2017,” he said.<\/p>\n

\"Guy<\/p>\n

Sebastian says he never could have imagined the “twists and turns” the legal ordeal would take.\u00a0 (Supplied: ABC TV)<\/p>\n

“There were many instances in which payments that should have been passed on to Guy, were not.”<\/p>\n

He said the failure to pay was the result of his mistake, adding, “I accept that my failures at that time had a serious and regrettable impact on Guy and his family, for which I apologise.”<\/p>\n

‘I would do things differently if I had my time again’<\/p>\n

Mr Day had been Sebastian’s manager for more than a decade when the pair split over a financial dispute in 2017.<\/p>\n

The pop singer launched legal action to try to recoup the money owed to him by Mr Day.<\/p>\n

In 2022, Mr Day was sentenced to four years in prison for embezzling $600,000 from his star client between 2013 and 2020, before his convictions were quashed on appeal.<\/p>\n

A retrial was ordered and last year a jury acquitted Mr Day of four charges, but failed to reach a verdict on the others.<\/p>\n

\"Titus<\/p>\n

Mr Day apologised to Sebastian and his family.\u00a0 (AAP: Dean Lewins)<\/p>\n

In the statement on Wednesday, Mr Day conceded that Sebastian previously attempted to settle with him on “incredibly fair terms,” adding that “I would do things differently if I had my time again”.<\/p>\n

Sebastian also issued a statement, thanking his family, friends and legal team for carrying him through the long legal ordeal.<\/p>\n

“I know this impacted a lot of people, but I believed it was something I couldn’t walk away from,” Sebastian said.<\/p>\n

“I never could have imagined the twists and turns this ordeal would take.<\/p>\n

“With the accountability shown and the apology Mr Day has provided in his statement, I am prepared to put aside my claim against him, forgive, and move forward.”<\/p>\n

‘A private resolution has always been Guy’s preference’<\/p>\n

The pop star previously opened up to the ABC about the pressures of giving evidence in the witness box<\/a> against Mr Day during the day, then performing in front of thousands of fans in an arena by night.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sebastian’s lawyer Mark Faraday said: “Today’s statement from Mr Day speaks for itself. It contains a clear apology, an acceptance of responsibility and an acknowledgement that payments owed to Guy were not passed on.<\/p>\n

“As stated by Mr Day, my client was willing to resolve this matter very early, and on incredibly fair terms. A private resolution has always been Guy’s preference.<\/p>\n

“For Guy this is not just a legal settlement, he genuinely wished Mr Day and his family better times ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pop star Guy Sebastian’s former manager Titus Day has admitted he failed to pass on money owed to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":852461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,1108,141105,134,91626,136,2733,2461,112924],"class_list":["post-852460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-court","tag-embezzlement","tag-entertainment","tag-guy-sebastian","tag-music","tag-nsw","tag-settlement","tag-titus-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/852461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}