In just a couple of years, Patty Lynn went from sharing stardom with her son, Ryan Upchurch, and being his ‘momager’ (mother and manager), to appearing in court, answering allegations that she stole from him.
Ryan may not be a lot of people’s favorite person in the world but when he revealed that his mother had been taking money from him without his knowledge, the backlashes shifted to her and she has since suffered both online and offline.
Now, Ryan has sued his mother in Court. He is demanding that she pays him back $25 million and guess what Patty Lynn had to say about that.
Well, according to the one-time momager who started off being her own attorney at the foremost court hearing, Lynn claims that her son isn’t worth the amount he is requesting.
Here’s all the update on the saga between Patty Lynn and her son who made her famous.
Patty Lynn Rose to Fame through Her Son
In 2015, a part of the world was introduced to a country rapper, singer, and comedian, Ryan Upchurch. He hails from Cheatham County, Tennessee, and was born by Patricia Burgess famously known as Patty Lynn.
Patty Lynn gained fame when she began to feature in her son’s video uploads and on social media and she was even dubbed ‘Momma Upchurch’. Soon, when Ryan’s career blew and the money started coming in, he decided that there was nobody better to manage him than his mother.
Patty Lynn then became Ryan’s Momager a term used to describe mothers of celebrities who also double as their managers.
You would understand better if you follow the Kardashians and know what Kris Jenner is to her children aside from being their mom.
Patty was made to oversee Upchurch Enterprises which was founded by her celebrity son, the rapper.
Ryan employed her to be his booking manager and oversee the entire managerial processes concerning this enterprise.
This is when things began to go south and Patty took her job a little off course according to recent revelations.
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As a Momager, Her Job was to Manage not Misappropriate but she chose the Latter
As the booking manager of Upchurch Enterprise, Patty Lynn decided to create sort of a subsidiary company to that. She created Blue Moon LLC which she claimed was still in the name of her son but recent happenings prove otherwise.
According to Ryan Upchurch’s mother, Blue Moon LLC was created as another channel to track and record certain business trades like sales of tickets and whatnot. It was supposed to protect the singer.
However, this company was actually registered under her own name and not her son’s or his company. This wasn’t what Ryan was told, initially, though.
It was through this company Patty Lynn misappropriated her son’s money and purchased a lot of properties. Some of these properties Ryan knew about, others were kept secret from him.
However, the ones he knew about, he thought were bought under his name or his company’s name but they were all bought under Blue Moon LLC.
See where we’re going with this?
Some time ago, it will be remembered that Ryan accused his mother of buying 2 houses with his money which both amounted to about a million dollars.
Well, this, under Blue Moon LLC is sort of the crux of the whole saga but it doesn’t end here. There are more shocking revelations.
A List of All Patty Lynn Stole from her son, Ryan Upchurch
There is actually a long list of accusations – about 122 of them made by her son and to which Patty Lynn is supposed to answer. However, here is a breakdown of her fraudulent acts and what Ryan’s mother misappropriated as her son’s manager.
- The purchase of 1 house which Ryan knew about and reportedly gave permission for. His younger brother, Austen was to have the house but the deed was to be in Ryan’s name or under the name of his company. This never happened as should because Patty put the deed under her and Austen’s names.
- Another house that Ryan also knew about. The house was to be under the rapper’s name for their security guard to live in but just like with the first, Patty put it under her name.
- There were 3 other houses all put under Blue Moon LLC and not the right channel but they were all bought with Ryan’s money.
- There was another house that Patty bought with cash from Blue Moon LLC and gifted to her friend and assistant, Tamara. Her son didn’t know about this but the funds for it were gotten from him.
- There was another house bought with money from Blue Moon LLC but was in Patty Lynn’s name.
- In total, Ryan Upchurch’s mother purchased 7 houses with her son’s money but none of them carried his or his company’s name. However, he kept on paying for taxes and the upkeep of these houses, somehow.
The only house that was bought for Ryan with his money which he knew about and whose deed carries his name is the Ghost Ranch where he lives.
When she was caught, Patty decided to liquidate Blue Moon LLC, kick out her friend, Tamara, and sell the house she initially gave to her.
She needed to get funds to hire security for herself then because she was being harassed and threatened by Upchurch’s fans.
Her son kicked her out of his house, the Ghost Ranch, which she lived in with him and her other children.
Subsequently, Lynn wanted to run away from the town before things escalated to this point.
Also, while all these were coming to light, Ryan hired a money man to run the company’s numbers. It was then discovered that his mum had, in total, from June 2020 to June 2023, transferred from him, through Blue Moon LLC, a sum of $690,000.
This is aside from the millions in all 7 houses that she purchased with her son’s money, without naming him on any deed.
The Case is Still Ongoing but So Far, Patty Lynn has Nothing to Her Name
The case against Patricia ‘Patty Lynn’ Burgess was filed in March 2023 and there was a temporary restraining order against her to stop taking money from the company. However, she still found a way to transfer 60,000 dollars to her PayPal account in June (shortly before the hearing started) even with the TRO.
Ryan and his lawyers decided to file for ‘contempt’ for the aforementioned transaction. They also changed it from a temporal restriction to a permanent restriction pending the next hearing.
Patricia was given 15 days from the hearing in June to respond to over 100 (about 122) summonses on her son’s filing.
Patty Lynn accepted the restriction order and even claimed to not care about all the other monies she was disallowed from having. Her accounts were all frozen so she hadn’t access to any funds.
However, her displeasure was with her personal accounts which she didn’t have access to anymore. She claimed that she needed the money there to tend to her older son, Aaron who had high-functioning autism.
According to Lynn, Aaron also had money in that account and most of the money there was gotten through her jewelry thrift business.
Upon proper investigation, it shows that Aaron actually stays with the country singer and is being taken care of by him. Therefore, Patty’s argument didn’t hold water and she was still left with her accounts frozen.
In a twist of events, when she stated that she didn’t mind all that was going on, Ryan Upchurch’s mother also stated that her son didn’t deserve the $25 million he was asking her to pay him.
There will be more to learn by the next hearing and it looks like Patty Lynn will even have a pro bono lawyer represent her by then. As of the first hearing, she represented herself.
