"The claims are misguided, misplaced, and ought to be directed against Death Row Records and other parties," PwC spokesman Steven Silber said.

In a 1997 lawsuit filed against what was then Coopers & Lybrand, half of the entity that now makes up accounting and consulting powerhouse PricewaterhouseCoopers, Dre, whose real name is Andre Young, alleged that Gelfand, Rennert & Feldman, a firm once owned by PwC, mismanaged his finances, bilking him out of more than $20 million, according to a report by Reuters.

According to the suit, Dre claims the accounting firm failed to pay him $6 million in salary, $1.1 million in artist advances, $3 million in publishing advances, and millions more in royalties, Reuters said.

"There's nothing new in the case," Silber added. "It's been in litigation for years. They just found a reporter to publicize the lawsuit."

-- By Melissa Klein

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