Rita Ora settles Roc Nation spat, reportedly signs with Warner

After a six month public spat, Rita Ora has reached an out of court settlement with Jay-Z’s Roc Nation and reportedly signed a new record deal with Warner Music Group.

The new deal has not been made official as yet. On the weekend, the 25-year-old hit Snapchat to share a photo of two pieces of paper with smiley-faced suns covering them, along with the caption: “Contract time!! OMG!”

CONTRACT TIME OMG @RitaOra ??? #RO #Album2 pic.twitter.com/2XlxqRPQNd

— Rita Ora Snapchat (@RitaOraSnapchat) June 5, 2016

British-born Ora sued Roc Nation last December, wanting to break her five-year deal with the US label.

She claimed that Roc Nation had a “diminished” status with “only a handful of admittedly worthy heritage superstar artists” in its roster. She felt increasingly neglected, as the company had not released her second record because it had begun diversifying into other divisions including sports management and streaming music on Tidal.

A month later, Roc Nation, who signed her in 2008 when she was an unknown, counter-sued for $2.4 million. It claimed that it had spent US$2.3 million on promoting Ora’s debut album Ora from 2012, and she was in breach of contract by not suppling the remaining four albums.

But the two parties have since settled, according to a document filed to the New York Supreme Court. Ora’s lawyer Howard King had earlier declared, “[Jay Z] could not have been more gracious.”

Ora has started work on a new album, with one track a team-up with Justin Bieber, whom she’s apparently started a relationship with after the Canadian’s recent split with Hailey Baldwin,

During her four absence from recording, Ora was a judge on The Voice and The X Factor UK and moved into acting. She is currently filming Fifty Shades Darker – the sequel to Fifty Shades of Grey – which sees her again play Christian Grey’s younger sister Mia.

Ora’s sophomore record was supposed to have been out in 2014. But there was a nasty fall-out with Calvin Harris, who produced most of the material.