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Just days after Pussycat Dolls founder Robin Antin filed a lawsuit claiming Nicole Scherzinger was refusing to participate in the group’s reunion tour, Scherzinger is firing back.
Antin claims that Scherzinger is trying to re-negotiate a 2019 agreement about their venture, Pussycat Dolls Worldwide, and their planned reunion tour.
Antin claimed the 43-year-old Masked Singer star is threatening to pull out of the tour unless she gets 75% of the company and ‘complete creative control,’ with her lawyer Howard King telling People the claims are, ‘ludicrous and false.’
Firing back: Just days after Pussycat Dolls founder Robin Antin filed a lawsuit claiming Nicole Scherzinger was refusing to participate in the group’s reunion tour, Scherzinger is firing back
Founder: Antin (above) claims that Scherzinger is trying to re-negotiate a 2019 agreement about their venture, Pussycat Dolls Worldwide, and their planned reunion tour.
King adds the claims, ‘are a desperate attempt to divert blame for her own failures by trying to impose obligations on Nicole that simply do not exist.’
Antin claims that the 2019 agreement said Scherzinger would control 49% of Pussycat Dolls Worldwide, but now Antin claims she wants 75%.
Antin adds that Scherzinger is also asking for ‘complete creative control’ and ‘final decision-making authority,’ and if her demands are not met, she’ll pull out of the tour.
Control: Antin claims that the 2019 agreement said Scherzinger would control 49% of Pussycat Dolls Worldwide, but now Antin claims she wants 75%
Demands: Antin adds that Scherzinger is also asking for ‘complete creative control’ and ‘final decision-making authority,’ and if her demands are not met, she’ll pull out of the tour
The tour was first announced in 2020, but later postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
There was initially supposed to be a European leg of the tour that started in May 2021, but all of the dates are listed as, ‘To Be Confirmed.’
Antin also claims that LiveNation is asking for the $600,000 they invested in the tour to be returned, though King claims those are Robin’s failings, not Nicole’s.
Tour: The tour was first announced in 2020, but later postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic
‘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,’ King said.
‘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,’ King claimed.
‘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),’ King added.
Robin: ‘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,’ King said
Invested: ‘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),’ King added
The group was formed by chroeographer Antin in 1995, originally as a burlesque group, but legendary producer Jimmy Iovine convinced her to turn the Pussycat Dolls into a pop group.
The group was comprised of Scherzinger, Carmit Bachar, Ashley Roberts, Jessica Sutta, Kimberly Wyatt and Melody Thornton.
They would go on to sell over 55 million records worldwide before disbanding in 2009, becoming one of the best-selling girl groups of all time.
Best selling: They would go on to sell over 55 million records worldwide before disbanding in 2009, becoming one of the best-selling girl groups of all time
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