'Respect Aaron Carter': Late Singer's Managers Fuming Over Book, Album Releases

Aaron Carter's managers are enraged over the disrespectful releases following the singer's untimely death.

Following Carter's passing, news about the release of the projects related to him, including the book "Aaron Carter: An Incomplete Story of an Incomplete Life" and the album "Blacklisted."

The move, unfortunately, got on people's nerves, including Hilary Duff and the singer's managers.

Taylor Helgeson of Big Umbrella Management penned a statement to Billboard in which it thanked Carter's ex-girlfriend for speaking out against the book release. It added that the same thing goes for the released single and album.

"In the few short days following our dear friend's passing we have been trying to grieve and process while simultaneously having to deal with obscenely disrespectful and unauthorized releases including an album, a single, and now it seems a book," the statement reads.

The management company added that this should be a time to respect Carter and mourn his death, but the "heartless money grabs and attention seeking" moves reportedly outshined everything.

In response to the releases, it urged the people involved to take down the content and that no material should be rereleased without the approval from Carter's family, friends, and loved ones.

Ballast Books and producers Morgan Matthews and John Wyatt Johnson have yet to respond. The producers of the song said after the release of "Blacklisted" on Sunday that they decided to drop it to honor Carter.

Hilary Duff Expresses Anger Over Unfinished Memoir

The management's statement came after Duff - Carter's ex-boyfriend - slammed the planned release of the singer's unfinished memoir.

In the statement, obtained by E! News, the "Lizzie McGuire" actress called out Ballast Books for "recklessly pushing a book out," accusing it of capitalizing on the recent tragedy.

Andy Symonds wrote the book after three years of interviewing the late singer. The publisher scheduled it to be released on November 15.

Carter also had a pending sitcom which would reportedly be completed after his death. He already filmed the pilot episode of "Group," where he shared his mental health recovery.

According to writer and director Brian Farmer, he and his team would work on it and finish the memoir in his honor and memory. In the series, Carter played the fictionalized version of himself, granting him his desire to share his life story through the show.

Carter starred in the sitcom alongside Mike Starr, Anne Judson-Yager, Ari Stidham, Olive Chiaachia, and Sam Levine, among others.

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