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Nicole Scherzinger is being sued by Pussycat Dolls founder Robin Antin.
The news comes after the Dolls’ frontwoman agreed to a band reunion before COVID-19 swept the world.
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According to the lawsuit, obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, which was filed on Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court, Scherzinger is threatening to walk away from the tour unless she’s given a majority share in funds and complete creative control in relaunching the group.
Antin, who founded the Pussycat Dolls in the early 2000s, says following the pandemic, Scherzinger “now refuses to participate in the tour.”
She also claims that she and Scherzinger came to their original deal in 2019. The original agreement had Scherzinger getting 49 per cent, under a short-form agreement she’s characterizing as a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU).
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Elsewhere in the documents, Antin said Scherzinger “demanded to renegotiate the terms of the MOU.”
According to the complaint, Scherzinger now wants to be a 75 per cent owner with final decision-making authority, and she’s refusing to participate in the reunion tour unless she gets what she wants.
Responding to Antin’s claims, Scherziner’s lawyer called them “ludicrous and false” in a statement to People.
Adding that they “are a desperate attempt to divert blame for her own failures by trying to impose obligations on Nicole that simply do not exist.”
Antin’s lawsuit also says that LiveNation wants the original $600,000 they invested for the tour back, but Scherzinger’s lawyer says she isn’t responsible.
“Robin will fail in her efforts to trade on Nicole’s hard-earned success to pull herself out of a deep financial hole she has created by her own poor business and professional decisions,” the attorney said.
Claiming, “Prior to Nicole’s involvement, trading on Nicole’s name without her consent, Robin borrowed (and spent) $600,000 from Live Nation that she won’t or can’t repay. Nicole has invested her own funds in excess of $150,000 in support of a potential PCD reunion that has now been made impossible by Robin’s actions (including the public release of the group members’ confidential financial information).”
“Nicole loves and respects the PCD fans and hopes to one day be back on stage performing the group’s amazing hits for them,” the statement concluded. “Sadly, this will not happen under these circumstances.”
