An employment lawyer looks at employee dishonesty, timing of misconduct, and just cause for dismissal
In 2008, Canadian singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette released the album “Flavours of Entanglement” which included the song “Madness.” The song’s title was a premonition of the fallout Morissette would have with her then temporary tour manager, Keren Urinov, which has been documented in a lawsuit filed in California.
Strip away the stages, lights, and crowds and it is an ordinary employment problem; a short-term employee, an incident the employer did not fully understand at the time, a criminal history that surfaced only afterward, and demands made once the job was already over.
Morissette hired Urinov as a temporary tour manager for a 2025 European run of her tour. In July 2025, UK airport Border Force officers flagged a bag belonging to Urinov that is said to have contained cannabis and xylazine (a non-opioid animal tranquilizer, known on the streets as “tranq”). Urinov claimed ownership of the bag, produced an Israeli medical cannabis authorization, and was released. After the tour ended, Urinov’s counsel sent escalating demands to Morissette for a 15-year employment agreement with guaranteed raises and immigration assistance, and threatened to report Morissette to British authorities for drug trafficking if she refused. The lawsuit also alleges that Urinov concealed a prior drug-smuggling arrest in South America during her hiring interview. The lawsuit pleads civil...
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