Mischa Barton filed suit Tuesday against her mother, Nuala Barton, claiming she's withheld her daughter's career earnings and otherwise exploited her fame. 
 
 The complaint, filed in the Los Angeles Superior Court, reads like a soap opera: "This action arises from the tragic tale of a greedy stage mother posing as a talent manager who, instead of acting in the best interest of her daughter/client, schemed to defraud her unsuspecting victim." 
 
 Barton is seeking unspecified damages, triple the amount the court finds her mother to have withheld. Her five-count complaint includes claims of breach of fiduciary duty, breach of oral contract and conversion. 
 
 The Sixth Sense and The O.C. actress claims her mother "had absolutely no experience or training" in talent management when she took on her daughter's career. She claims Nuala set up a scheme in which she exclusively controlled Mischa's finances and only "doled out an ‘allowance’ to Barton at her sole discretion and on a sporadic basis." 
 
 She alleges her mother induced her to buy a Beverly Hills home for $7.8 million in 2006 and "represented to Barton that the lavish home would be a vehicle for which Barton could invest her growing income for acting services," but she structured the purchase to assign herself half-ownership of the property. "Nuala and Barton’s father currently reside comfortably in the $7.8 million home. Barton is not welcome at the property," continues the complaint. 
 
 Nuala allegedly lied about Mischa's compensation for acting in the horror film The Hoarder "so that she could pocket the difference — on top of her hefty management fee — all without Barton’s knowledge." She entered her daughter into endorsement contracts without telling her and launched enterprises like a Mischa Barton handbag line and Mischa Barton fashion boutique in London without compensating her daughter, claims the actress. 
 
 "Nuala currently refuses to provide Barton with any of the funds she earned (and continues to earn in the form of residual payments) for her acting, modeling and endorsement services," reads the complaint. 
 
 "These revelations of exploitation and fraud, coupled with ongoing instances of bullying and verbal abuse, eventually led to the breakdown of Barton and Nuala's personal and professional relationship,” claims Barton, who is now with APA and LINK — “a reputable talent manager." 
 
 Alex Weingarten of Venable filed the complaint. 
 
 Nuala's attorney Lawrence Ecoff of Ecoff Landsberg tells THR neither he nor Nuala have received the complaint. They declined to comment. ||||| Mischa Barton is suing her manager-mother, alleging that over the course of "The O.C." star's career Nuala Barton has messed with her daughter's money, property and image. 
 
 A lawsuit filed Tuesday in Los Angeles County Superior Court casts Nuala as "a greedy stage mother posing as a talent manager who, instead of acting in the best interest of her daughter/client, schemed to defraud her unsuspecting victim." 
 
 Mischa, now 29, entered into a verbal contract when she was 8, agreeing to pay her mother a management fee equal to 10% of her gross earnings but not more than that, the lawsuit says. 
 
 The actress "placed her utmost trust" in her mother until recently, when Mischa's discovery of "exploitation and fraud, coupled with ongoing instances of bullying and verbal abuse" resulted in the breakdown of their personal and professional relationships, the suit says. 
 
 According to the lawsuit, Nuala created various companies that gave her control over her daughter's money, gave herself half-ownership in the house Mischa bought in 2006 and then borrowed against that property, started her own side businesses making money off Mischa's image, entered Mischa into endorsement deals — one as recently as October — without explaining the obligations of those deals, and lied to her daughter about her salary to act in "The Hoarder" and pocketed the difference. 
 
 Nuala also lied to Mischa about how much the actress had been paid to do the movie "The Hoarder," forged her daughter's signature on documents associated with the job and then pocketed the difference for herself, the suit says. 
 
 "Neither Nuala nor Barton's father, Paul, has had a job independent of Barton in over a decade," the lawsuit says. "Instead, they sit back expecting their daughter's hard work and dedication to her craft to support their lifestyle. Both comfortably reside in the $7.8 million Beverly Hills home that was purchased with Barton's funds while Barton is not welcome at the property." 
 
 Incidentally, that house has been a pain in Mischa Barton's butt for a while now: In February 2013 she was trying to lease it out for $35,000 a month, and by August 2014 she was reportedly behind on the mortgage. 
 
 Mischa is seeking actual damages plus triple that in punitive damages as well as legal fees. While no dollar amount is specified, the document puts the sum in question at more than $25 million. 
 
 The younger Barton had a rocky time after becoming a star via "The O.C.," which ran from 2003 to 2006. In 2007, she was arrested on suspicion of DUI and ordered by the court to go to rehab and employ a sobriety coach. In 2009, she found herself on a four-day involuntary psych hold. 
 
 
 
 "It was a full-on breakdown," Barton told People in October 2013. "I was under enormous pressure." 
 
 Back then, however, she was cutting her U.K.-born parents some slack. 
 
 "They were thrust into this situation that was completely foreign to them," she told the magazine. "Nothing could prepare them to have their children jump into the overtly sexualized and crazy world of L.A." 
 
 Still, she told the mag that when she was a teen she had lots of people depending on her. "I asked to get out of jobs all the time," she said, "and the response was, 'No, you have to.' There's an attitude that you can't say no." 
 
 Mischa Barton is now represented professionally by agent Jonathan Perry of APA and manager Adam Griffin of LINK Entertainment. Lawyers Alex Weingarten and Leslie Eggers of Venable LLP are representing her in the suit against her mother. 
 
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 Mischa Barton -- My Mother's a Financial Vampire ... She's Sucking Me Dry 
 
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 Mischa Barton's mother/manager pocketed a chunk of her daughter's salary from a movie -- and even kicked Mischa out of her own Beverly Hills mansion ... according to a new lawsuit. 
 
 Mischa filed the suit against her mom, Nuala Barton ... claiming she's a "greedy stage mother posing as a talent manager" ... and says she lied to Mischa about her income on a film called "The Hoarder." In the docs, Mischa says Nuala told her she was being paid a certain amount ... but eventually found out from the production company her salary was higher than that number. 
 
 She says Nuala took the difference for herself ... and also took a 10% management fee. She doesn't mention specific numbers in the lawsuit. 
 
 Mischa says mommie dearest also used her name to pimp out a handbag line and to open a Mischa Barton fashion boutique in London -- all of which might have been great if Mischa got a dime from any of it. She says Nuala kept all the profits for herself. 
 
 As for Mischa's home -- she says her mother rigged the paperwork to give herself co-ownership of the 8 bedroom, 11 bath mansion. According to the suit, Nuala even took out loans against the property -- and then kicked her out of her own home. She says her mom and dad are now "comfortably" entrenched in the mansion. 
 
 The suit gets particularly nasty ... with Mischa stating her parents "sit back expecting their daughter's hard work and dedication to her craft to support their lifestyle." She adds neither of them has had a job, outside of Mischa Inc., in over a decade. 
 
 Interestingly, Mischa didn't sue Dad, but that's probably only because he's not her manager. ||||| “Ultimately they want to get Suri indoctrinated to lose her affection for her mother and go out of communication with her.... They might also try messing with Katie's career behind the scenes with lies and false propaganda.“ 
 
 Miscavige Hill is still scarred from the Scientology upbringing.“I was allowed to see my parents only once a week at best — sometimes not for years,” she said. 
 
 Holmes filed for divorce in a surprise move last week and is making a bold play for sole legal custody in a reported attempt to block Suri’s indoctrination. She also moved into a luxury building in Chelsea — part of her escape plan — while Cruise, a devout Scientologist, was filming a movie in Iceland. 
 
 The dark-haired beauty has also hired a new security team. Holmes, 33, put on a brave face Wednesday, beginning her Fourth of July festivities a few blocks from her new home with a mother-daughter trip to buy fixings for a feast. 
 
 “I’m all right — thank you,” the actress graciously told The News in her first public words since dumping the “Mission: Impossible” star. 
 
 She spoke to The News while pushing a shopping cart carrying Suri through Whole Foods in Chelsea. Holmes casually strolled the aisles and tossed ground beef, hamburger rolls, strawberries and bananas in her basket. 
 
 “She’s not going to hide,” a source close to Holmes told The News. “She’s going to live her life.” 
 
 Bill Bramhall/New York Daily News 
 
 Hours later, her father Martin Holmes, popped up at the same store to buy paper plates and plastic cups. 
 
 “She’s doing all right,” he said of his daughter. “We are doing okay.” 
 
 While Katie Holmes appeared upbeat, Cruise remained downcast. Her stealth divorce filing in New York last week left the Oscar-nominated actor “deeply saddened,” his rep said in a statement. 
 
 Cruise flew home to Beverly Hills on Tuesday and marked the milestone of his 50th birthday with a “somber” gathering attended by his teenage kids Connor and Isabella. Suri spoke to her dad by phone, a source told People. 
 
 The heartbroken Hollywood hunk has reportedly begged Holmes for a reconciliation meeting. 
 
 “She was talking to Tom on the phone up until last week saying, ‘I love you,’ ” a source told People — even as she was finalizing details of the bombshell breakup.With Edgar Sandoval 
 
 mlysiak@nydailynews.com
– It sounds like something that might have happened on The OC: Mischa Barton is suing her mother, claiming the greedy "momager" withheld the actress's earnings, among other things. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Barton, 29, says mom Nuala Barton "had absolutely no experience or training" and simply "[posed] as a talent manager" in order to exploit and defraud her daughter. The lawsuit accuses Nuala of controlling Barton's earnings while only giving Barton an occasional "allowance," and even of lying about her earnings for one movie "so that she could pocket the difference—on top of her hefty management fee—all without Barton's knowledge." According to the Los Angeles Times, Barton's suit says she entered into a verbal contract with her mom when she was 8; her mom was to get 10% of her gross earnings. In 2006, when Barton was 20, she claims her mother convinced her to buy a $7.8 million home in Beverly Hills as an investment vehicle ... but that Nuala and Barton's dad now live in the home, where Barton is "not welcome." There are myriad additional accusations surrounding forged signatures, a handbag line, a fashion boutique, and endorsement contracts, along with allegations of "bullying and verbal abuse." As TMZ notes, the lawsuit gets decidedly personal: Barton says neither of her parents have had a job other than managing her for more than 10 years, and they both "sit back expecting their daughter's hard work and dedication to her craft to support their lifestyle." Nuala is, as you might expect, no longer Barton's talent manager. (Click to read about 10 more momagers and dadagers.)