Carly Simon in Legal Spat with Starbucks

Famed singer and songwriter Carly Simon has filed a lawsuit against Starbucks after the coffee mogul withdrew involvement with her music label last year.

Simon claims deceit, tortuous interference and unfair business practices by Starbucks led to the company dropping a marketing plan that featured her latest album, This Kind of Love, Reuters reports. The singer believes the decision to drop the arrangement, which occurred just five days before her album's release, led to poorer sales on the record.

Allegedly, in spring 2007, Starbucks approach Simon with a plan to market This Kind of Love on the Hear Music label that included intentions to stack the album on Starbucks coffee counters and a $575,000 advance on the contract.

Simon's lawyers claim in the lawsuit that Starbucks failed to deliver the promotion and distribution they promised by reneging on their promise and handing the album to jazz label Concord Music - which, according to attorneys, "had none of the assets that constituted the reason for Ms. Simon's decision."

Though Simon says she planned for This Kind of Love to be her final record, the album's poor sales compelled the singer to begin recording a new one on her son's label, Iris Records.