In 2002, Houston became involved in a legal dispute with her father, and one-time manager, John Houston. John Houston Enterprise, run by company president and family friend Kevin Skinner, filed a breach-of-contract lawsuit and sued for $100 million (but lost); stating that she owed his company previously unpaid compensation for helping to negotiate her $100 million contract with Arista Records and for sorting out her legal problems involving her drug bust at a Hawaiian Airport in 2000. The singer's publicist claimed that Houston's 81 year old father had nothing to do with the lawsuit, but Skinner claimed otherwise. Houston's father, who was ill at the time, died in February 2003 though the singer did not attend the funeral. The lawsuit was dismissed on April 5, 2004, after Skinner failed to participate in pre-trial discovery.