Did Taylor Swift take the money and run?
The 23-year-old songbird is on the receiving end of a lawsuit for allegedly taking a $2.5 million advance fee to headline last August's Capital Hoedown music festival in Ottawa, Canada, only to keep the cash after the event was canceled.
According to the complaint filed in federal court in New York and obtained by E! News, Florida-based ticketing company FIRE USA Inc. accused Swift and her management, the Austin-based Messina Group, of accepting the payment, then refusing to perform "and/or reschedule a new appearance" which "amounted to a breach" of her contract.
Taylor Swift is reportedly being sued by the ticket agent for Capital Hoedown. Capital is an Ottawa based country music festival that began in 2010 and was supposed to have Swift as a headliner in 2012 until the festival got cancelled due to some disputes with the city.
The company paid Taylor $2.5 million upfront to be the headliner of the festival. Once the festival was cancelled she kept the money. I am assuming it is because she didn't back out, they cancelled the show.
Front Gate Tickets, the festival's ticket agent, had to refund $1.8 million in tickets and is suing Swift for reimbursement. They have said that if Taylor gives them the money she will still have made $700,000 for not even singing.
Why is the ticket company suing Taylor and not the Festival? Don't they have insurance for things like this?
Those are my first questions and second - a date in Taylor's calendar is a valuable piece of real estate. It is possible that Taylor may have had to forgo some other, possibly more lucrative, appearances to hold the date for this festival.
As the evidence lines up here people - Taylor doesn't owe these people anything. Especially if her contract didn't state that she would have to repay if the festival didn't go forward - which of course no one has seen because that is probably not the case.
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