Prince Just Got Slapped With A Lawsuit, But Is This Fair?

Posted On : March 28, 2015

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Before Cherry filed her lawsuit in Los Angeles, though, Hill’s lawyer Peter Haviland entered his own lawsuit in New York that claimed that “Judith is an independent artist, not bound by contract to anyone.” The suit also alleges that Cherry purposefully conspired against Hill by planting a story to outlets like TMZ that the singer had recorded a love song dedicated to North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un at the height of The Interview fiasco.

Hill’s suit states that Sony Music cut ties with Cherry’s company The Cherry Party – which in turn severed their contract with Hill – and that, soon after, Cherry sent out a strange email to Hill’s manager saying she was “sick of the music business and all of its trash” before taking an extended “leave of absence.”

“Judith Hill was and is absolutely free to perform her music as she has done,” Haviland says in a statement to Rolling Stone, adding that Cherry’s countersuit was “nothing but a publicity stunt.

“It is a shame that Prince has been dragged into this insanity,” Haviland says. “But Judith Hill will not be deterred from performing her music by the likes of some Jolene Cherry.

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The main question I have is why is this producer going after Prince, when the issue seems to be with her former artist, Judith Hill? Prince made zero dollars off of the free album, Judith apparently was no longer Cherry’s artist at the time of the recordings based on what her attorneys are saying, and Prince was never under any legal obligation to producer, Jolene Cherry. I smell a rat here.

What do you think ILOSM fam?’ Should the producer be going after Prince’s money, or her former artist, Judith Hill?

Like we mentioned earlier, Judith Hill is the former background singer for Michael Jackson who was featured on the MJ documentary, “This Is It.” See a video clip of she and Michael Jackson rehearsing a duet together just before his passing…

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