Nicole Scherzinger brands Pussycat Dolls lawsuit “meritless”
completemusicupdate.comFollowing Nicole Scherzinger’s announcement last week that the Pussycat Dolls reunion tour was cancelled, the singer has now filed new court documents in the ongoing legal battle over her involvement in said tour.Scherzinger calls the earlier breach of contract lawsuit brought against her by PCD manager Robin Antin “meritless” and says that she is not to blame for the reunion project collapsing.Schezinger’s response to the lawsuit, published by the New York Post, states: “This case is a meritless effort to enforce an expired 2019 agreement to perform a concert tour in 2019 and 2020.
Had Antin participated in the negotiation in good faith instead of stubbornly trying to revive the old agreement, the likelihood is that the parties would have reached an agreement for a new tour”.Antin sued Scherzinger in September last year, accusing her of “extortion”.
Antin said that after the group’s reunion shows had been postponed due to the pandemic, Scherzinger had demanded 75% or profits and “complete creative control” in order for her to commit to continue with the project.Negotiations to get Scherzinger involved in the first place had already taken two years, and she had agreed to accept 49% of profits from the shows in 2019.
Delays in announcing new shows, as a result of the new negotiations, resulted in Live Nation demanding back a $600,000 advance it had paid ahead of the original dates.According to Antin’s lawsuit, Scherzinger had justified her demand for more money by citing “the growth of her personal brand and the opportunities she would have to forego” in order to continue taking part in the reunion.
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