{"id":10991,"date":"2026-06-19T00:16:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T00:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/avicii-ex-manager-wins-appeal-reviving-lawsuit-against-djs-estate\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T00:16:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T00:16:03","slug":"avicii-ex-manager-wins-appeal-reviving-lawsuit-against-djs-estate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/avicii-ex-manager-wins-appeal-reviving-lawsuit-against-djs-estate\/","title":{"rendered":"Avicii Ex-Manager Wins Appeal Reviving Lawsuit Against DJ’s Estate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n\tA Swedish appeals court has reinstated a lawsuit brought against Avicii\u2019s estate by the late DJ\u2019s longtime manager, Arash \u201cAsh\u201d Pournouri<\/strong>, over his portrayal in books and a documentary as a \u201cmanipulative slavedriver.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe ruling out of the Svea Court of Appeal, dated May 25 and obtained by Billboard<\/em>, says a Stockholm District Court judge did not perform a proper evaluation before dismissing Pournouri\u2019s claims against the heirs of Avicii (Tim Bergling) earlier this year. The appellate court sent the case back to the District Court for a new hearing.<\/p>\n

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\n\tPournouri sued the estate of the late dance music icon in December, alleging they\u2019d violated a non-disparagement clause in the 2016 contract that ended his eight-year management relationship with Avicii. He claimed Avicii\u2019s heirs subjected him to \u201ccharacter assassination\u201d in the 2017 Netflix documentary Avicii: True Stories<\/em>, as well as in two authorized biographies published after the DJ\u2019s death by suicide in 2018.<\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to Pournouri, these projects falsely suggested that he drove Avicii to suicide by overworking him and pressuring the star to keep performing despite mental and physical health struggles. Pournouri said the opposite was true: \u201cIn fact, Ash was very positive about Tim\u2019s decision to stop touring and saw it as a much needed and welcome turning point,\u201d read the manager\u2019s lawsuit.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn March, Judge Linda Rant\u00e9n dismissed Pournouri\u2019s lawsuit after determining that he had not met the technical requirements to seek a declaratory judgment regarding a breach of the 2016 termination agreement. But on appeal, the higher court said a deeper analysis was required before that conclusion could be reached.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe district court did not have the basis to \u2014 without first giving the appellants the opportunity to clarify their claim and without having clarified the defendants\u2019 defense within the framework of a trial \u2014 take a position on the admissibility of the declaratory action,\u201d reads the appeal ruling, translated from Swedish by the service DeepL. \u201cConsequently, a procedural error occurred in the District Court.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tIn a statement to Billboard<\/em> on Thursday (June 18), Pournouri said, \u201cMy claim was publicly characterized as unfounded and the case as lost. The Svea Court of Appeal has now found that the dismissal was a procedural error and overturned it. The decision is final and cannot be appealed.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tA rep for the Avicii estate declined to comment on Thursday. In a previous statement when the case was initially dismissed, Avicii\u2019s father, Klas Bergling, said, \u201cI just want to say how sad it is to see Tim\u2019s name used in this context.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThis process has raised strong emotions and a lot of discomfort for me and Tim\u2019s mother Anki,\u201d added Klas at the time. \u201cAt the same time, we cannot understand Arash. We have said it several times since 2018, also in public: neither I nor Tim\u2019s mother have ever blamed Arash for Tim\u2019s suicide.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSeparately from the case against Avicii\u2019s estate, Pournouri also sued True Stories <\/em>director Levan Tsikurishvili for defamation last year. That lawsuit was dismissed due to insufficient evidence earlier this month, according to Swedish newspaper Expressen<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n


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