Jennifer Lopez being sued by former employee

A man once tasked with driving Jennifer Lopez around has filed a lawsuit against the singer, actress and "American Idol" judge, reported TMZ. The driver, Hakob Manoukian, claims the star's manager, Benny Medina, humiliated him and ruined his career. Now, he's suing both parties for unspecified damages.

As TMZ reports, Manoukian, an Iraqi native, says he went to work for J.Lo and husband Marc Anthony in 2005. Manoukian claims that the couple became fond of him, and eventually convinced him to become their head of security and transportation. Manoukian claims because of this he was required to shut down his own company. Manoukian says J.Lo offered to pay him more than $200,000 per year.

All was apparently going well until 2011, Manoukian insists, until J.Lo started work on the film "What to Expect When You're Working," and he suddenly had to see a lot more of Medina. The manager apparently despised the driver and frequently berated him in public, telling him, among other things, "He could not speak English well enough," reports TMZ.

The friction resulted in a demotion for Manoukian, as he was made to "merely be Lopez's Los Angeles driver," he says in the suit. That led to his resignation and ultimately this pending litigation.

While Lopez has yet to comment, Medina dismissed the charges, referring to Manoukian as a "disgruntled employee who chose to quit."