Mick Mars, guitarist for the 1980’s heavy metallic band Mötley Crüe, filed a lawsuit on Thursday (Friday in Australia) against the band that he was part of for 4 a long time.
Mars is requesting that seven company entities related to Mötley Crüe hand over information associated to their enterprise dealings following a 2022 dispute stemming from Mars notifying the band that he’d be retiring from touring as a result of a medical situation.
Mars claims the band subsequently tried to oust him altogether and diminish future earnings he claims he is entitled to, in accordance with a replica of the lawsuit obtained by CNN.
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“It is beyond sad that, after 41 years together, a band would try to throw out a member who is unable to tour anymore because he has a debilitating disease. Mick has been pushed around for far too long in this band, and we are not going to let that continue,” Ed McPherson, the legal professional representing Mars who filed the lawsuit on Thursday, informed CNN in an announcement.
McPherson mentioned within the swimsuit that when Mars notified Mötley Crüe that he’d retire from touring as a result of his “debilitating” Ankylosing Spondylitis, a situation that primarily impacts the backbone, he made it clear that he had no intention of leaving the band, that he may nonetheless document with them and nonetheless carry out with them in a “residency situation.”
The swimsuit alleges the band then referred to as an emergency shareholders assembly for Mötley Crüe’s essential company entity “in order to throw Mars out of the band, to fire him as a director of the corporation, to fire him as an officer of the corporation, and to take away his shares of the corporation.”
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Sasha Frid, litigation counsel for Mötley Crüe, informed CNN in an announcement that Mars’ lawsuit is “unfortunate and completely off-base,” and that Mars, and the opposite members of Mötley Crüe, signed a 2008 settlement that “in no event shall any resigning shareholder be entitled to receive any monies attributable to live performances (i.e., tours).”
Frid’s assertion continued to say that after Mars publicly resigned from Mötley Crüe, “the band offered Mick a generous compensation package to honour his career with the band” regardless of “the fact that the band did not owe Mick anything.”
The lawsuit additionally outlines years of frayed relationships and tumult amongst members of the band, together with allegations that numerous members carried out some songs to pre-recorded tracks whereas on tour and that bassist Nikki Sixx “gaslighted” Mars, making a false narrative that Mars was making errors on tour due to cognitive dysfunction.
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McPherson famous within the swimsuit that any errors Mars could have made whereas on tour had been as a result of his in-ear displays “constantly malfunctioning, causing Mars to be unable to hear his own instrument.”
“Mötley Crüe always performs its songs live but during the last tour Mick struggled to remember chords, played the wrong songs and made constant mistakes which led to his departure from the band,” Frid mentioned within the band’s assertion.
Mötley Crüe famously reunited in 2019 and introduced a brand new tour after performing what was speculated to be their final present on the finish of 2015.
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