Beyonce Sued For $100 Million For Backing Out Of Video Game Deal That Cost Company Millions And 70 People Their Jobs
Posted by Media Outrage on April 27th, 2011
Beyonce has been hit with a mega-$100 million lawsuit by a video game developer that says she pulled out of a deal which destroyed their company:
Software developer Gate Five is suing Beyoncé Knowles for pulling out of a deal to create a motion-sensing dance video game, seeking more than $100 million for “a bad faith breach of contract so callous that, on what appeared to be a whim, she destroyed Gate Five’s business and drove 70 people into unemployment, the week before Christmas.” The game, titled Starpower: Beyoncé, was a motion-sensing game that would have allowed players to dance along with hits like “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It).”
The lawsuit, which refers to Jay-Z’s wife as “Ms. Carter,” said she “made an extortionate demand for entirely new compensation terms she wanted. When her maneuver backfired and drove away the financier (who found Ms. Carter too erratic to do business with), she pulled out of the project in breach of the agreement.”
“In early December everything was still a go. And then the week of Christmas, she said that’s it, I don’t want to hear from you guys, go away, resulting in 70 people losing their jobs,” said Gate Five founder Greg Easley in an interview. “We’d much rather make a game than litigate. But we want to recover damages that Gate Five suffered.”
The summons also claims that Beyoncé’s actions were “so unscrupulous that her then manager (who is also her father) renounced them.” The singer severed all business ties with her father, Mathew Knowles, last month. A representative for Beyoncé was not immediately available for comment.
Click Here to read the summons.
Mediaoutrage- Wow. Your thoughts on the matter???
April 27th, 2011 at 1:21 pm
100 millones de dólares. Eso es mucho dinero. Pero normalmente este tipo de negocios funciona así. Ahora solo le queda pagar por haberse descubierto. Buen post. Saludos cordiales.
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April 27th, 2011 at 2:13 pm
Damn she taking the term “diva” to a whole other level ain’t she?
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April 27th, 2011 at 6:38 pm
Keep your husband posted.
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April 27th, 2011 at 7:01 pm
You can’t punish a person for having an attitude, so therefore there can be no punitive damages, even if a court would accept or document the complaint as a justiciable court action.
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April 27th, 2011 at 8:18 pm
Well even if they don’t 100 million, Beyonce is getting ready to be out of a lot of money in court fees.And she does have a nasty azz attitude. And what these BLACK entertainers don’t understand is that when they sit at a table with an investor who has in interest in them, the investor is more than likely worth 3 to 5 times more than the entertainer is worth.And has had money long before they were born.
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April 27th, 2011 at 9:49 pm
Much will depend upon the particular court itself regarding how it will treat the complaint, however, a contract, if not sealed and signed is only an oral contract, which is not as cut-and-dried. Apparently, before any signing, the dispute arose. A contract is dependant on the written terms expressed before the signing. Anything prior is merely what is called a “tentative agreement” meaning if everything goes as planned and AGREEABLE with parties, the contract becomes full and binding, any thing less — is non-binding.
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April 27th, 2011 at 10:02 pm
Furthermoe, only the loser pays the court.
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April 27th, 2011 at 10:24 pm
Still further, if her husband was not quite informed, and consented to her partaking in the venture, the alleged contract could be invalid in that manner. Just say to the Black entertainers that the new day has arrived.
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April 28th, 2011 at 5:28 pm
Contrary to popular belief, what is legally binding or not has changed over the years. A verbal agreement is now legitimate.
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May 2nd, 2011 at 2:31 am
A verbal agreement has never been illegal, to my understanding, but has never had the binding force of a written agreement; and a written agreement always supersedes a verbal agreement if such an issue never arises. All lawyers know that there are two types of contract, in any case as I see it (as it has been articulated in the article)neither type of contract would harm the defendant in this matter.
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May 2nd, 2011 at 2:42 am
Moreover, spousal approval, intervention, consensus and endorsement of the defendants actions, ventures, and business affairs be clearly relevant.
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May 2nd, 2011 at 4:30 am
If a contract is in fact dependant upon the terms (written or otherwise), a plaintiff must bear the initial burden of presenting at least a prima facie display that the terms were pronounced to, and understood by the defendant(s)and, in most cases, that the defendant was most likely in a frame of mind whereas the defendant(s) was/were likely to realize the gravity of the situation.
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May 2nd, 2011 at 10:32 am
For instance, Did the defendant know that her decision could result in the termination of seventy employees? (before completetion of the contract). Did she know she would be doing business with seventy plus other individuals? Are they named plaintiffs in the lawsuit? Can evidence support any allegation that she acted in bad faith,meaning that her intention was to rob or extort the plaintiff? Did she have criminal intent? Could her actions be deemed by reasonable folk to be strategical business savvy? Were there any witnesses as to her erratic behavior, if so, do they have certified credentials as to their qualifications to asses her mental capacity?
Surely, a game inventor, should know that he or she may not rely on mere self-serving statements as a strong foundation for a court action.
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