I know a lot of people who’d like to punch Chad Kroeger in the mouth. It is Kroeger, however, that stands accused of punching a Vancouver furniture salesman in the mouth back in 2007.
Kroeger, the lead singer of Nickelback, has been sued in British Columbia by Noah Morse who claims that Kroeger “punched [him] [...]
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Singers, Rock Stars & Musicians
High School Musical star (and Zac Efron girlfriend) Vanessa Hudgens settled a civil lawsuit brought against her by Johnny Vieira. Vieira is a music producer who claims that Hudgens refused to abide by an agreement they reached before she became famous.
Hudgens’ lawyer told TMZ.com, “My client appreciates Mr. Vieira’s efforts early in her recording career. [...]
A Brooklyn Supreme Court Judge dismissed a civil lawsuit against rapper Foxy Brown last month. The suit, filed in May 2008, stemmed from a 2007 incident in which Brown (née Inga Marchand) threw her Blackberry at neighbor Arlene Raymond. Raymond suffered a chipped tooth and bruised eye.
Brown pleaded guilty last May to criminal charges related [...]
Singer Kelis filed for divorce from her hip-hop star husband Nas today. They married in 2003 and she is seven months pregnant with their first child.
Wow. You know it’s gotta be pretty bad for a couple to get divorced before the baby is even born. Rumors of marital strife had been circulating for a few [...]
Jailed hip-hop star DMX (né Earl Simmons) has been ordered to pay $240,000 for assaulting a Connecticut man at JFK International Airport while posing as an FBI agent five years ago. A New York jury also found the rapper liable for causing emotional distress to the man’s mother and his 12-year-old daughter.
The trial took three [...]
Rapper Lil Wayne got sued last year for copyright infringement, accused of failing to get appropriate permissions to sample music from folk singer Karma-Ann Swanepoel’s song Once. The samples were used in Lil Wayne’s track I Feel Like Dying.
Wayne has now dragged a third party into the suit, accusing the song’s producer Rebel Rock Productions [...]
Singer Toni Braxton has sued insurer Lloyd’s of London for refusing to pay out when she had to cancel her Vegas show due to heart problems. Braxton bought “non-appearance and cancellation insurance” from Lloyd’s prior to her extended residency at the Flamingo Hotel in 2006.
Braxton later had to cancel the remainder of her scheduled shows [...]
A Los Angeles Superior Court Judge extended a restraining order against Britney Spears’s former manager/Svengali Sam Lutfi for three years. Odd lawyer Jon Eardley is similarly restrained.
Both Lutfi and Eardley are required to stay at least 100 yards away from Britney, her sons and her family members’ homes. They are not to harass or contact [...]
The hearing over whether to extend Britney Spears’s restraining order against Sam Lutfi and Jon Eardley continues. Three hours of closing argument were heard by the court on Tuesday but no ruling was made.
Jamie Spears, the singer’s father and conservator, first requested the permanent restraining orders back in January. He alleges that both Lutfi [...]
According to a lawsuit filed this week in Los Angeles, Prince cut a U.S. literary agency out of a book deal they negotiated for him. The singer reportedly agreed to be represented by the agency to arrange for distribution of a book documenting his 21-date residency at London’s O2 Arena in 2007. The agency claims [...]
