{"id":1080,"date":"2024-05-30T22:15:15","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T22:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/madonna-fan-lawsuit-claims-delayed-l-a-concert-was-pornographic\/"},"modified":"2024-06-02T17:22:02","modified_gmt":"2024-06-02T17:22:02","slug":"madonna-fan-lawsuit-claims-delayed-l-a-concert-was-pornographic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/madonna-fan-lawsuit-claims-delayed-l-a-concert-was-pornographic\/","title":{"rendered":"Madonna Fan Lawsuit Claims Delayed L.A. Concert Was ‘Pornographic’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n\tMadonna is facing another class action lawsuit over delayed concerts on her Celebration Tour, this time from a ticket buyer who also claims she forced fans to watch \u201cpornography\u201d during the show.<\/p>\n

\n\tLike several previous cases, the new lawsuit claims that the Queen of Pop violated false advertising laws by taking the stage more than an hour later than expected, leaving fans to wait in an \u201cuncomfortably hot\u201d arena and get home later than expected.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut the new case, filed in Los Angeles on Wednesday (May 29) by a fan named Justen Lipeles, also includes a bold new accusation: that Madonna should have warned fans that the show would include \u201ctopless women\u201d who were \u201cengaging in simulated sexual acts.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cForcing consumers to wait hours in hot, uncomfortable arenas and subjecting them to pornography without warning is demonstrative of Madonna\u2019s flippant disrespect for her fans,\u201d lawyers for the aggrieved fan wrote. \u201cPlaintiff felt like he was watching a pornographic film being made.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMadonna and promotor Live Nation are already facing similar cases in New York and Washington, D.C., over claims that late starts to her Celebration concerts broke the law. Both were filed as class actions, seeking to represent potentially thousands of other fans who also faced the alleged delays.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe New York case, focused on December shows at the Barclay Center, made headlines because it claimed the fans \u201chad to get up early to go to work\u201d the next day \u2014 a claim Madonna\u2019s lawyers have since argued is not the kind of \u201ccognizable injury\u201d that can form the basis for a lawsuit. The D.C. case, targeting tour dates at the District\u2019s Capital One Arena, added claims that the arena was \u201cuncomfortably hot\u201d and that she had lip-synched portions of the show.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn his new lawsuit, Lipeles echoed all of those claims about Madonna\u2019s March 7 performance at the Kia Forum. He claims he paid more than $500 per ticket for a show that was supposed to start at 8:30 p.m. but that Madonna didn\u2019t take the stage until after 10 p.m., leaving fans to wait in an arena that was overheated due to \u201cMadonna\u2019s requirement that venues not turn on air conditioning.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cPlaintiff and members of the class were profusely sweating and became physically ill as a result of the heat,\u201d his lawyers write. \u201cWhen fans complained about the heat, Madonna unreasonably told them to take their clothes off.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen the show finally did start, Lipeles claims, \u201cit was apparent to plaintiff that Madonna was lip synching\u201d during \u201cmost of the performance.\u201d And he says he was given no warning that \u201cthere would be nudity and pornography on stage during Madonna\u2019s concerts.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn technical terms, the lawsuit accuses Madonna of breaching her contract with ticket buyers, negligent misrepresentation, false advertising and several other forms of legal wrongdoing under California law.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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