AWARDED:

01/07/1998 at 12:00 AM EST

Paula Abdul, $100,000, in a breach-of-contract lawsuit that claims a company never paid her for an appearance, her lawyer said Tuesday. The singer accused Aaron Tonken and Associates of reneging on a promise to pay her $100,000 for appearing at the Jim Beam Stakes in Kentucky more than three years ago. A judge issued a default ruling that Abdul was owed the money after Tonken's representatives failed to appear in court.