AEROSMITH - Steven Tyler’s Lawyer Wins American Idol Suit With Singer’s Former Managers
February 2, 2013, 11 years ago
According to Deadline.com, a Superior Court judge has formally dismissed most of an $8 million lawsuit against Steven Tyler’s lawyer by the former American Idol judge’s former managers. Kovac Media Group/Tenth Street Entertainment had claimed in their suit filed back in October that attorney Dina LaPolt has played both sides and had messed up Tyler’s contract renegotiations with the Fox show in 2011.
Judge Joseph Kalin in a conference case management hearing declared that the defense’s invoking of anti-SLAPP statutes and the First Amendment did protect the lawyer. Kovac alleged LaPolt’s mishandling of their “hot commodity” cost Tyler a $6 million to $8 million raise in his Idol contract for a second season on the show.
Read more at Deadline.com.
