The infamous September 2024 onstage altercation between Jane’s Behavior frontman Perry Farrell and totally different members of the band is way from over, as the two occasions filed separate lawsuits on Wednesday.
Farrell filed a licensed grievance — not a countersuit — in the direction of former bandmates Dave Navarro, Eric Avery, and Stephen Perkins, merely hours after the trio sued him. In a 30-page grievance, Farrell accuses the earlier members of orchestrating a years-long advertising marketing campaign of bullying and harassment geared towards undermining him. He moreover alleges that he had no say in canceling their tour and breaking up the band.
In it, he says the altercation was spurred by his frustration over the other bandmembers’ “collaborating of their gadgets at a extreme amount so that he couldn’t hear himself sing with out blasting his private in-ear shows at an unsafe diploma,” and that Navarro assaulted Farrell and his partner backstage.
Navarro, Avery and Perkins issued their lawsuit on Wednesday morning in the direction of Farrell, citing the onstage alterction between Navarro and Farrell that resulted throughout the cancellation of their reunion tour and, apparently, the final word dissolution of the long-running alt-rock band. The band members are trying to find on the very least $10 million from Farrell, claiming throughout the lawsuit that the group misplaced that amount due to the tour’s cancellation and the suspension of all band actions.
In a press launch shared with Choice, Farrell said of his former bandmates’ lawsuit, “As a founding member and ingenious drive behind Jane’s Behavior, Perry Farrell has on a regular basis prioritized the band’s legacy and its supporters, which is why the events of September thirteenth, 2024 in Boston and the following fallout was so devastating. With out warning or session and using Perry as a scapegoat, Dave Navarro and the other band members took it upon themselves to abruptly cancel the remaining tour dates—violating contracts and disregarding all expert obligations. Perry was blindsided by not being allowed to vote and be heard, leaving him unable to plead his case to proceed the tour for his or her followers. If that was not harmful ample, Dave Navarro then intentionally and publicly blamed Perry for the canceled tour dates efficiently destroying Perry’s standing and inflicting him irreparable damage. No matter this continued bullying perpetuated by Navarro, Perry’s dedication to Jane’s Behavior and the preservation of its constructive have an effect on on the music commerce stays unshaken. He’s actively exploring strategies to deal with the state of affairs and assure accountability.”
The necessary factor part of the grievance states: “That Jane’s Behavior’s bandmates have usually been antagonistic within the course of each other has been well-documented. Nonetheless Navarro, Avery and Perkins apparently decided that Jane’s Behavior’s a few years of success should be jettisoned in pursuit of a years-long bullying advertising marketing campaign in the direction of Farrell involving harassing him onstage all through performances, along with, amongst other ways, attempting to undermine him by collaborating of their gadgets at a extreme amount so that he couldn’t hear himself sing with out blasting his private in-ear shows at an unsafe diploma.
“This harassment escalated on September 13, 2024 to bodily violence by Navarro and Avery in the direction of Farrell onstage all through the Boston current and the assault of every Perry and Etty Lau Farrell backstage by Navarro. These altercations precipitated the selection by Navarro, Avery and Perkins to every title off the rest of the band’s North American tour. With out warning or session and using Perry Farrell, as a scapegoat, Navarro and the other band members took it upon themselves to abruptly cancel the remaining tour dates — violating contracts and disregarding all expert obligations — and apparently break up the band for good.”
Earlier on Wednesday, Navarro filed a go effectively with in the direction of Farrell for assault and battery following the onstage incident closing fall, when Farrell threw a punch at Navarro all through a dwell efficiency in Boston. Crew members then intervened and escorted Farrell off stage, and one . Navarro is suing Farrell for intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligence, breach of fiduciary obligation and breach of contract.
Regarding Navarro’s alleged backstage assault, the grievance reads: “Navarro now falsely claims Farrell hit Navarro with a ‘sucker punch. What really occurred was that it was Navarro who menacingly charged at and aggressively assaulted every Farrell and his partner Etty Lau backstage, shouting, ‘What the fuck was that, you motherfucker?!’ Farrell took a defensive stance and shouted, ‘Get the fuck out of proper right here!’ to which Navarro replied, ‘I’m in no way working with you as soon as extra!’”
The grievance continues: “[Farrell] was not even consulted about cancelling the tour and wouldn’t have agreed to take motion due to the financial and reputational penalties, along with publicity to third-party licensed obligation created by their allowing Wilton Hilton, Inc., the band’s touring agency, breach its touring commitments.”
Farrell furthermore claims the group revealed “malicious” and “defamatory public statements” about him on social media upon the tour’s cancellation, along with putting the blame on the cancellation of the tour on Farrell. Shortly after the September scuffle, Navarro took to social media to share the data of the tour cancellation. In his message, he well-known the cancellation was on account of Farrell’s “persevering with pattern of habits” and “psychological effectively being difficulties.”
“Now now we have come to the conclusion that we now haven’t any various nonetheless to discontinue the current US tour,” he wrote on the time. “Our concern for his non-public effectively being and safety along with our private has left us no totally different. We hope that he’ll uncover the help he desires.”
Farrell apologized to his bandmates and followers for his “inexcusable habits,” hours after info broke that the second half of the band’s reunion tour was being canceled. “Sadly, my breaking stage resulted in inexcusable habits, and I take full accountability for the way in which I chosen to take care of the state of affairs,” Farrell said on the time.
His partner Etty moreover issued an Instagram assertion that was normally defensive of her husband, nonetheless added in a comment that Farrell was “spinning out” and said that his current state represented “primarily essentially the most devastating psychological effectively being of all” that she had seen since being with him since 1997.
Farrell’s lawsuit claims his bandmates centered their social media statements on his psychological effectively being in a “spurious effort every to change the narrative regarding the events of the band’s closing current, however moreover as a part of a disingenuous effort to protected insurance coverage protection safety for his or her very personal irresponsible cancellation of the tour.”
Altogether, 15 tour dates have been canceled, decrease than a month after Reside Nation launched that seven dates have been being added to the highest of the tour, which moreover featured Love and Rockets as co-headliner.
