<human>: A friend and I started a business, doing booking for DJs, pop acts, and other club entertainers overseas into India. On our first confirmed gig, we ran into a snag - the promoter club promoter convinced my agent (named Z) to accept a deal in which we get paid after the event is complete. Z has known the guy for about 6 years through mutual acquaintences, so she vouched for him and was certain that he wouldn't screw us over.. but even after the event went off completely flawlessly because of our continued hard work to make sure everything was covered, we are sitting here 3 weeks out, still awaiting payment.

He owes us $1,000, and he has so far lied twice about getting us the money. First time he claimed that he actually made the payment via wire transfer, which obviously never showed up. He's been non responsive to emails, and not even reading the BB messenger messages that Z's been sending. The only time he read one and responded after we started trying to collect was when Z's message title read "I can't believe I trusted you and you did this to me" was visible without him having to open it. But even then he just offered a bunch of useless and likely false excuses (I was in the hospital) and promised to have the $ to us asap - which once again never showed up.

I'm pretty pissed. The only thing I can think of right now is to go to the people we know in common and trash his reputation, and just hope that he pays up after his friends know they made Z cry. I'd like to get some bill collector oficially involved, since we do know a lot about the guy, including where he works and who his partners are.. but I know nothing about laws between here and India. On top of that, I don't even know if we could afford it since we built this company to support ourselves and pay the rent.  We're pretty stuck here on what to do.

Can you give me a shortened version of the text?
<bot>: promoter from overseas duped my friend into accepting that he would pay up later, and is now lying about remitting payment. How do I get him to cough up the loot?