Federal judge in Los Angeles has held Grammy winner, ordered to pay more than $1m to ex-manager, in contempt after he failed to appear at hearings

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The Mexican singer Luis Miguel has surrendered to US marshals, authorities say, in a case involving a dispute in which he has been ordered to pay more than $1m to his former manager.

Matthew Cordova, a deputy US marshal, says the singer, whose full name is Luis Miguel Gallego Basteri, is scheduled to appear on Tuesday afternoon before a federal judge in Los Angeles who has held him in contempt for failing to appear at court hearings.

Miguel, a five-time Grammy winner known as “el sol de México” (the sun of Mexico), who has sold more than 100m records worldwide, does not have an attorney listed in the court case and his record label declined comment.

Miguel was ordered to pay his former manager, William Brockhaus, more than $1m in July 2016 by a federal judge in New York. Brockhaus’s attorneys sought to enforce the judgment in Los Angeles, where Miguel owns a home. In January, a judge ordered the singer to turn over a 2013 Rolls Royce to help satisfy the judgment.

Brockhaus sued Miguel in Texas in 2014, claiming the singer had failed to pay him based on a 2012 management contract they signed.

Court records state the singer refused to accept court summons and did not appear for court hearings to determine his ability to pay.