Click Entertainment is suing Rain and his managers for more than a million dollars.June 21, 2007
KGMB9 NewsFans want their money back and so does the promoter. The man who put his reputation on the line to bring the Korean pop star Rain to Hawaii is suing the star and shedding new light on the bizarre concert mystery.
It’s the mega concert that never was. Now the man known as the Justin Timberlake of Korea, who failed to show up for his Aloha Stadium concert last Friday, is accused of being part of a scam fronted by his Korean managers.Eric Seitz represents Honolulu’s Click Entertainment company now suing the artist and his managers for more than a million dollars. “Either the people did not have the capacity to provide the entertainer, or they never intended to do so and they took the money,” Seitz told the media Thursday.
Click had been selling tickets for months until the concert was canceled last Tuesday along with concerts in Atlanta and New York. The excuse from Rain’s managers: they “were trying to do too many venues for too big a show” and they “just felt the timing would be too close.”
But Seitz says until last week Click Entertainment had no idea anything was wrong. And since then no one from Rain’s management has been in contact with them.
“There are lots of issues here of credibility and candor and capacity to perform. And all of those add up, in my mind, to the very strong likelihood, although we tried not to draw that conclusion, that this may have been a scam or a fraud from its inception,” Seitz said. Seitz says the promoter has uncovered a trail of questionable conduct from flimsy excuses about stadium capacity to an ongoing trademark dispute over Rain’s name.
They’ll serve Rain his papers at an upcoming concert in Los Angeles – a concert that may be his last in the U.S. “If we file a lawsuit, they don’t respond, we get a judgement, he’s not going to be able to perform or engage in any other entertainment contracts in the united states because we’ll follow him wherever he goes and we’ll tie up all the proceeds,” Seitz said.
Source: KGMB9
Credit: taebin @ShenYuePop.com
Taebin thanks for the news ^^ … and what a treatthis great land of Dreams did to Rain so far! eh? We just heard the verdic less than 10 hours ago and now another Lawsuit and this sounds real serious!
Omygosh! I bet Bi is crying as we speak. I don’t know how this will turn out, but I hope it turns out in his favor. I wish Oppa Bi the best. AJA Fighting!