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Askeroff got a reaction from into the erotico in Madonna Sued Again Over Delayed Concerts: ‘Total Disrespect For Her Fans’
Madonna Sued Again Over Delayed Concerts: ‘Total Disrespect For Her Fans’
Months after she was sued by angry New Yorkers, a group of D.C. fans say Madonna made them wait hours in a "hot, uncomfortable arena" before lip syncing her performance.
BY BILL DONAHUE
https://www.billboard.com/pro/madonna-sued-again-late-concerts-washington-dc-fans
Madonna is facing another federal class action lawsuit over late starts to her concerts, this time filed by spurned Washington D.C. ticket buyers who are accusing her of showing “total disrespect for her fans.”
In a complaint filed Friday in D.C. federal court, three fans claim that the Queen of Pop broke the law by taking the stage two hours late at a pair of December concerts at the city’s Capital One Arena.
The lawsuit, which also named concert giant Live Nation as a defendant, says that the late starts amount to “a wanton exercise in false advertising.”
“Forcing consumers to wait hours for her performance in a hot, uncomfortable arena is demonstrative of Madonna’s arrogant and total disrespect for her fans,” lawyers for the fans wrote. “In essence, Madonna and Live Nation are a consumer’s worst nightmare.”
The new case comes three months after Madonna was hit with a similar lawsuit over delayed starts to December shows in New York City. That case made headlines because it claimed the fans “had to get up early to go to work” the next day – a claim Madonna’s lawyers have since argued is not the kind of “cognizable injury” that can form the basis for a lawsuit.
In Friday’s complaint, which was filed by the same lawyers as the New York case, the fans seemed intent on heading off that same kind of backlash. “This complaint is not about unhappy fans who don’t want to stay up late, but instead, reasonable, responsible people who had commitments to babysitters, work, getting their vehicles out of parking lots that closed at 12:00 midnight, and realizing that public transportation would no longer be operating.”
Like the previous case, the lawsuit is a proposed class action that aims to represent all fans who experienced similar problems from the late start. A rep for Madonna and Live Nation did not immediately return a request for comment on Monday.
Filed by fans Elizabeth Halper-Asefi, Mary Conoboy, and Nestor Monte, Jr., the new case claims that Dec. 18 and Dec. 19 tour dates on Madonna’s Celebration Tour listed an 8:30 p.m. start time, but that the shows did not start until 10:40. When the star finally did take the stage, they say she offered no apologies: “I am sorry I am late… no, I am not sorry, it’s who I am… I’m always late.”
In the earlier New York case, Madonna and Live Nation’s lawyers have argued that “no reasonable concertgoer—and certainly no Madonna fan—would expect the headline act at a major arena concert to take the stage at the ticketed event time” and that fans cannot sue over something they knew about when they bought their tickets.
But in Friday’s complaint, lawyers for the D.C. fans called that argument “absurd.”
“In fact, reasonable consumers have seen that concerts featuring Taylor Swift and Bruce Springsteen, whose tours are also promoted by Live Nation, do start on the time indicated on the ticket and have similar experiences attending Broadway theater, NFL football and Major League baseball games,” the lawyers write.
The new case includes notable new allegations beyond the delayed start. For instance, the D.C. fans also claim the venue was “uncomfortably hot” and that Madonna herself had insisted on the temperature. When fans allegedly chanted “A.C.” at her, they say she responded “f**k you! I’m cold!… If you’re hot, take your f**king clothes off!”
The new case also claims that Madonna lip synched portions of the D.C. shows – another bit of alleged false advertising to fans who expected that she would “perform her music live” from the stage. “Had plaintiffs and other class members known that … the performer would be lip synching, they would not have purchased their tickets.”
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Askeroff got a reaction from Velvet Rope in Madonna Sued Again Over Delayed Concerts: ‘Total Disrespect For Her Fans’
Madonna Sued Again Over Delayed Concerts: ‘Total Disrespect For Her Fans’
Months after she was sued by angry New Yorkers, a group of D.C. fans say Madonna made them wait hours in a "hot, uncomfortable arena" before lip syncing her performance.
BY BILL DONAHUE
https://www.billboard.com/pro/madonna-sued-again-late-concerts-washington-dc-fans
Madonna is facing another federal class action lawsuit over late starts to her concerts, this time filed by spurned Washington D.C. ticket buyers who are accusing her of showing “total disrespect for her fans.”
In a complaint filed Friday in D.C. federal court, three fans claim that the Queen of Pop broke the law by taking the stage two hours late at a pair of December concerts at the city’s Capital One Arena.
The lawsuit, which also named concert giant Live Nation as a defendant, says that the late starts amount to “a wanton exercise in false advertising.”
“Forcing consumers to wait hours for her performance in a hot, uncomfortable arena is demonstrative of Madonna’s arrogant and total disrespect for her fans,” lawyers for the fans wrote. “In essence, Madonna and Live Nation are a consumer’s worst nightmare.”
The new case comes three months after Madonna was hit with a similar lawsuit over delayed starts to December shows in New York City. That case made headlines because it claimed the fans “had to get up early to go to work” the next day – a claim Madonna’s lawyers have since argued is not the kind of “cognizable injury” that can form the basis for a lawsuit.
In Friday’s complaint, which was filed by the same lawyers as the New York case, the fans seemed intent on heading off that same kind of backlash. “This complaint is not about unhappy fans who don’t want to stay up late, but instead, reasonable, responsible people who had commitments to babysitters, work, getting their vehicles out of parking lots that closed at 12:00 midnight, and realizing that public transportation would no longer be operating.”
Like the previous case, the lawsuit is a proposed class action that aims to represent all fans who experienced similar problems from the late start. A rep for Madonna and Live Nation did not immediately return a request for comment on Monday.
Filed by fans Elizabeth Halper-Asefi, Mary Conoboy, and Nestor Monte, Jr., the new case claims that Dec. 18 and Dec. 19 tour dates on Madonna’s Celebration Tour listed an 8:30 p.m. start time, but that the shows did not start until 10:40. When the star finally did take the stage, they say she offered no apologies: “I am sorry I am late… no, I am not sorry, it’s who I am… I’m always late.”
In the earlier New York case, Madonna and Live Nation’s lawyers have argued that “no reasonable concertgoer—and certainly no Madonna fan—would expect the headline act at a major arena concert to take the stage at the ticketed event time” and that fans cannot sue over something they knew about when they bought their tickets.
But in Friday’s complaint, lawyers for the D.C. fans called that argument “absurd.”
“In fact, reasonable consumers have seen that concerts featuring Taylor Swift and Bruce Springsteen, whose tours are also promoted by Live Nation, do start on the time indicated on the ticket and have similar experiences attending Broadway theater, NFL football and Major League baseball games,” the lawyers write.
The new case includes notable new allegations beyond the delayed start. For instance, the D.C. fans also claim the venue was “uncomfortably hot” and that Madonna herself had insisted on the temperature. When fans allegedly chanted “A.C.” at her, they say she responded “f**k you! I’m cold!… If you’re hot, take your f**king clothes off!”
The new case also claims that Madonna lip synched portions of the D.C. shows – another bit of alleged false advertising to fans who expected that she would “perform her music live” from the stage. “Had plaintiffs and other class members known that … the performer would be lip synching, they would not have purchased their tickets.”
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Askeroff got a reaction from Alm47 in Like a Prayer featured in new “Deadpool & Wolverine” trailer
Don't know what I was gagged more about wolverine original suit or lap in trailer
oh it works so well!
finally Madonna legacy starting get some deserved treatment
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Askeroff got a reaction from Voguerista in Rio de Janeiro live May 4, 2024
by VEJA RIO
In the report, VEJA RIO spoke with people involved in this venture,
and in this circle the estimate of the pop star's fee is around 16.5 million dollars (more than 90 million reais).
Madonna is lifted in a large metal elevator 9 meters above the ground. Fans who have already watched the show in another country wonder if this could be repeated here, as everything will naturally have to be adjusted to the magnitude of Copacabana.
“We will follow the original project, with large screens and catwalks on which the artist advances among the public, but with much larger dimensions”, says Luiz Oscar Niemeyer, partner at Bonus Track, heading a production team made up of 4,000 professionals.
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Askeroff got a reaction from liquidlove88 in Unexpected Surprise
after 3 billion years Madonna's fans still believe in surprises
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Askeroff got a reaction from Redha DBL in Courtney Love shades Madonna and more
She didn't said anything rude or bad
In dinosaurs era people called that thing "opinion" something that today stars is completely missing
everybody play safe and afraid of cancel culture or others fan bases reaction
rock n roll is dead
That noise only makes me want to me listen "America's Sweetheart" once again
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Askeroff got a reaction from vitoralmeiida in Rio de Janeiro live May 4, 2024
By Veja Rio
Although the organizers of the Madonna show on Copacabana Beach said, during the press conference that announced the show, that there would be no division between the public on the sand, the stage project, sent to public bodies, shows that the VIPs will have , a privileged place to watch the American diva.
In total, 7,500 privileged guests – including artists, guests of honor, politicians and winners of the promotion organized by Banco Itaú, sponsor of the show, will be accommodated right in front of the stage.
VEJA Rio had exclusive access to the process of granting “Nothing to oppose” to the big event on May 4th.
One of the documents details the structure of the stage, which will be 56 meters wide by 56 meters long, complete with a 97-meter catwalk.
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Askeroff got a reaction from Pootz333 in Courtney Love shades Madonna and more
She didn't said anything rude or bad
In dinosaurs era people called that thing "opinion" something that today stars is completely missing
everybody play safe and afraid of cancel culture or others fan bases reaction
rock n roll is dead
That noise only makes me want to me listen "America's Sweetheart" once again
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Askeroff got a reaction from RUADJAI in Courtney Love shades Madonna and more
She didn't said anything rude or bad
In dinosaurs era people called that thing "opinion" something that today stars is completely missing
everybody play safe and afraid of cancel culture or others fan bases reaction
rock n roll is dead
That noise only makes me want to me listen "America's Sweetheart" once again
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Askeroff got a reaction from heikeeduardo in Courtney Love shades Madonna and more
She didn't said anything rude or bad
In dinosaurs era people called that thing "opinion" something that today stars is completely missing
everybody play safe and afraid of cancel culture or others fan bases reaction
rock n roll is dead
That noise only makes me want to me listen "America's Sweetheart" once again
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Askeroff got a reaction from xavier in Unexpected Surprise
well its not bad but it looks like her everyday stuff from her Instagram shooting by Gomes
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Askeroff got a reaction from stefo in Unexpected Surprise
well its not bad but it looks like her everyday stuff from her Instagram shooting by Gomes
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Askeroff got a reaction from Alpha in Unexpected Surprise
well its not bad but it looks like her everyday stuff from her Instagram shooting by Gomes
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Askeroff got a reaction from Frankito in Unexpected Surprise
after 3 billion years Madonna's fans still believe in surprises
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Askeroff got a reaction from bstranger in Unexpected Surprise
after 3 billion years Madonna's fans still believe in surprises
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Askeroff got a reaction from Cyberraga in Unexpected Surprise
after 3 billion years Madonna's fans still believe in surprises
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Askeroff got a reaction from maddy1111 in Unexpected Surprise
after 3 billion years Madonna's fans still believe in surprises
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Askeroff got a reaction from Dazedmadonna in Unexpected Surprise
after 3 billion years Madonna's fans still believe in surprises
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Askeroff got a reaction from zephyr in the sky at night in Unexpected Surprise
after 3 billion years Madonna's fans still believe in surprises
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Askeroff got a reaction from Honey Little in Unexpected Surprise
after 3 billion years Madonna's fans still believe in surprises
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Askeroff got a reaction from Frank in Unexpected Surprise
after 3 billion years Madonna's fans still believe in surprises
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after 3 billion years Madonna's fans still believe in surprises
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after 3 billion years Madonna's fans still believe in surprises
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Askeroff got a reaction from Veronica-Electronica in Unexpected Surprise
after 3 billion years Madonna's fans still believe in surprises
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Askeroff got a reaction from FallingInLove in Unexpected Surprise
after 3 billion years Madonna's fans still believe in surprises