Pink Cover Band Sued (Singer Accused of Being "Aesthetically Incorrect")
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If Collette never met Belfonte before he filed the lawsuit, he was presumably not the cover band's drummer. If Belfonte believes that Nevone stole his idea, that's the guy he should be suing. And being a lawyer, if Belfonte believes he has a case against the band because they weren't good enough in his opinion, he ought to be countersued by EACH member AND relieved of his law license! P.S. After the real Pink confessed that Jon had broken her 9-year-old heart when he married, he sent her a pair of his pants with a note giving her permission to claim that she'd been in them! |
UPDATE: Collette is alive, well, working on an upcoming album, and has done a video covering a song by -- WAIT FOR IT! -- Pink!
She's also put up a blog, complete with an FAQ: Quote:
She could write a book...what, she IS??? |
New York Post and truth in the same sentence?!?! Any facts that end up in Post are purely coincidental.
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Lawsuit Reform Alliance of New York:
Collette McLafferty’s life was turned upside down in 2014 when the singer and songwriter was served with a $10 million lawsuit...by a person whom she had never met, stemming from a job she accepted in a P!NK tribute band...Bloggers and writers came to her defense, and turned their sights on the plaintiff who filed the $10 million case, Charles Bonfante. HALF my legal fees? How about ALL of them, PLUS malicious damages? Better yet, accept Bonfante's offer in exchange for him giving up practicing law! |
3/2016 update
The $10,000,000 lawsuit against me has been DISMISSED!!!!!
I am no longer being sued for $10,000,000 everybody! There will be a hearing on June 2nd to give Charles Bonfante an opportunity to explain himself and figure out what sanctions should be imposed.ConfessionsOfABadUglySinger: We live in a country where anyone can sue anybody for anything. It doesn’t matter if there is merit to the case or not. A case can take years to resolve or get thrown out of court. This underreported issue has the power to close down businesses of all sizes and completely hijack lives...The place I called home for ten years is no longer my home because a total stranger sued me...Like Iggy Azalea, I too had suicidal thoughts when the media had branded me “old”, “ugly” and “off key"...According to her blog, she's has a New York law named after her, and tried everything from reaching out to U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders to going to church for the first time in thirty years to wondering why the New York Post doesn't think that 79-year old Robert Redford isn't too old and ugly to sing on a movie soundtrack. But her two-year long strange trip is finally over, and now it's Bonfante's turn to sweat since his law license can be lifted -- Confessions Of A Bad, Ugly-In-His-Soul Lawyer, anyone? Anyway, mega congrats to Collette, and no doubt she's also grateful for the attention we Jovitalkers paid! http://rocktivity.com/Graphics/applause.gif |
More good news from the McLafferty camp: the dismissal of the case was a summary judgment!
A "summary judgment" is the legal way of saying, "Their case against me is so full of manure, I am not going to dignify it with a response other to respectfully request that YOU not dignify it with a response, your honor." Well, according to Collette's attorney: Quote:
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Justice For Collette Accomplished
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2017 Update
...Back during P!NK Tributegate, a musician/lawyer advised me to shut up, pay my legal fees, agree to a gag order, forget about legal reform, not demand any accountability, and focus on singing since my "window was closing" due to my age...and "...stop singing flat" (he had never heard me sing, he was going by the press reports). He told me no one outside of the NY Post would ever write about my case as it was yesterday's news...To be fair, he meant well and was offering me his services for free to sign my life and rights away...https://www.facebook.com/littleredco...56345131427573 |
I'm glad you have this forum to kill some time.
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I guess I'll just have to settle for hoping that the people responsible for the 1,800 views it has generated are glad, too -- especially if THEY are also aspiring musicians.
P.S. Would YOU happen to be a musician and a lawyer? ;) |
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