Axl Rose Sued for $1.9 Million Over Unpaid Tour Commission
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Axl Rose’s former managers have slapped him with a roughly $1.9 million lawsuit that claims the Guns n’ Roses leader reneged on a verbal agreement from 2008. The $1.9 million represents the 15 percent commission Irving Azoff’s Front Line Management was promised of the estimated $12 million Gn’R have earned so far in their tours of Southeast Asia, Canada and South America.
In legal documents filed yesterday at Los Angeles’ Superior Court, Front Line accuse Axl, or “William Bill Bailey” as he’s referred to in the complaint, of breach of contract for “failing and refusing” to pay Front Line the promised fees. Neither Front Line nor Guns n’ Roses’ camp have commented on the lawsuit, and Rose has yet to remark on it on his active Twitter feed. Guns n’ Roses are currently on tour in South America.
Check out photos of Guns n’ Roses’ Chinese Democracy world tour.
As Rolling Stone previously reported, Rose revealed last month that he is now managed by Doc McGhee, Kiss’ manager since 1996 and the man credited with helping artists like Bon Jovi, Mötley Crüe and Hootie & the Blowfish rise to fame. The sudden shift in management came less than two years after Rose revealed that he’d joined forces with Azoff’s Front Line, which helped broker the deal between Guns n’ Roses and Best Buy for the exclusive release of Chinese Democracy in 2008. Months after signing Gn’R, Front Line Management was purchased by Ticketmaster, and Azoff was elevated to CEO of that company.
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Hate all you want, Axl is fucking rocking these days. Killer show in Halifax. Smaller venues but crazy great sound and stage.
That said my only question is the creative talent around him right not (although skill talent is not a question.) Can he be productive or is it gonna be stagnant?
This is based on a verbal agreement? Good luck with getting your $1.9 mil. These guys were his management team and conducted business with a wink and a handshake? You never do anything in business without written documentation or signed agreements, contracts, etc. What a bunch of dumbasses. People in business that pull shit like that deserve to lose money…
Well that’s sad. That means no money was made off of Chinese Democracy after this lawsuit. lol What a douche. He should have stayed in the studio. Forever!
Look at that scrawny Slash rip-off guy! HAHAHAHAHAHA! Good try.
Axl could have made just a little more inconspicuous. What a delusional nutbag.
Axl shouldn’t have gone on tour.
Don’t do it again.
Problem solved.
Someone ought to sue Axl for walking around looking like a d-bag! Button up your shirt and lose the handlebar mustache, Bob Seger!
A verbal contract in California is still a legal contract. This will be decided out of court for an undisclosed sum.
Hey Axl,
Damn right it will be thrown out!What an idiot!
Axl also said ‘you’re in the jungle, baby. you’re gonna die’, back in 1987.
Yet, here i am in 2010. and still alive. I’m gonna sue that lying bastard!
Belive me this is bullshit, it will be thrown out of court.