Tommy Lee Quits Motley Crue

[T-Bone]

[url="http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=80619"]TOMMY LEE Quits MÖTLEY CRÜE - Sep. 12, 2007[/url]


According to the amended complaint filed by MÖTLEY CRÜE against artist manager Carl Stubner and his three companies Sanctuary Group, Inc., Sanctuary Artist Management, Inc. and Carl Stubner Productions, Inc., drummer Tommy Lee "recently informed [bassist Nikki] Sixx and [guitarist Mick] Mars, the shareholders of MCI [Motley Crue, Inc.], that he was resigning from the band and his resignation was accepted."

According to a press release issued by MÖTLEY CRÜE earlier today, the group's amended complaint contains "newly obtained evidence" in its lawsuit against Stubner, consisting of statements from band members Vince Neil, Nikki Sixx and Mick Mars as well as ten sworn declarations from key professionals associated with the band, "demonstrates beyond any question that Stubner was a manager of MÖTLEY CRÜE and not just the manager of Tommy Lee as he has previously claimed in press releases and legal filings. The newly obtained evidence supports and confirms allegations in the amended complaint filed yesterday in Los Angeles Superior Court that Stubner breached his fiduciary duties to MÖTLEY CRÜE by orchestrating a scheme for his personal financial gain at the expense and to the detriment of the band."

The press release adds, "Even though he received approximately a million dollars in commissions from MÖTLEY CRÜE, Stubner used his positions as the band’s manager and the manager of one of the band members to demand a higher commission for himself. The amended complaint contends that his motivation was pure greed. The new evidence also confirms that Stubner demanded tickets from the band that he resold at 'scalper' prices for his own gain."

The lawsuit seeks compensatory damages of more than $20 million for lost earnings and profits resulting from the defendants' actions. The lawsuit also seeks punitive damages because, as claimed in the amended complaint, the defendants' "despicable" actions were undertaken "fraudulently, maliciously and oppressively."

In CRÜE's original lawsuit, which was filed on June 18 in Los Angeles County Superior Court, three of the group's founding members (Nikki Sixx, Vince Neil and Mick Mars) through Motley Crue Inc., claimed Stubner forced Tommy Lee to "to become engaged in 'reality' projects that were bad career moves for Lee, harming [Sixx, Mars, Neil and Lee], the MÖTLEY CRÜE brand and Lee's own image." According to TMZ.com, the suit calls the low-rated NBC show "Tommy Lee Goes to College" a "critical disappointment and a ratings disaster," adding it painted Lee as "incoherent, lazy and incompetent" and made him "look like a laughing stock who could not carry a drum beat." The suit also claims Lee's participation on "Rock Star: Supernova" "diminished the public's interest in Lee and their overall perception of his musical talents."

Because Lee was so busy doing reality TV, the band says he was unavailable to tour with the CRÜE, thus causing the cancellation of several key concert dates. The band claims that they lost $8 million in ticket and merchandise revenue because of Lee's scheduling conflicts. The band claims these conflicts were "both real and concocted" by Stubner to "leverage his control over Lee to his financial advantage and to MÖTLEY CRÜE and Lee's detriment."

MÖTLEY CRÜE's litigation attorney is Skip Miller of Miller Barondess, LLP in Los Angeles.

Watch fan-filmed video footage of MÖTLEY CRÜE perfoming its classic song "Live Wire" on June 8, 2007 at the AB Concerthall in Brussels, Belgium:

[IngoK]

So a new bad soap opera starts.....

[Red13JoePa]

So very unsurprising if true.


I really thought that this time, he realized his bread is buttered in the Crue but....

[Angiekay]

Oooooh, newsworthy...................






NOT!

[Squidward24]

Hey I hear that Samantha Maloney is free.

[weatherman90]

Update: Tommy Lee Not Quitting Motley Crue After All: http://www.nme.com/news/tommy-lee/31122

[Red13JoePa]

Yea, hold the horn....Just read MR.com's front page and looks as though there may be hope.

[RockInDetroit]

What do you expect here. Three band members sued one. This is not going to end pretty. Personally I am with Tommy on this one. Motley Crue was coming to an end anyways. I thought Mick Mars was hanging it up also. So as sad as it is, I am suprised these guys played as long as they did together.

[Red13JoePa]

It's odd, the specifics of the suit say Motley Crue (Inc) which obviously Tommy Lee is a part of VS Lee's Manager.

Not necessarily Tommy Lee per se.

[Shadowsong]

Can't say I want anything to do with him & his unnatural attributes!