Nicole Scherzinger and Pussycat Dolls founder Robin Antin have reached a “settlement in principle” which will bring an end to their years-long court battle, In Touch can exclusively report.
According to court documents obtained by In Touch, Nicole, 46, and Robin, 63, informed the court of their deal on Friday, November 1.
Lawyers for the parties explained, “the parties have reached a settlement in principle, subject to the execution of certain written agreements.”
The attorneys added, “Due to the complexity of the settlement, which involves an ongoing business relationship, the parties hereby request that the Court set an Order to Show Cause Re: Dismissal no sooner than 60 calendar days from the date of this notice.”
Page Six was the first to report on the settlement.
Back in September 2021, Robin sued Nicole over a planned Pussycat Dolls reunion, which included a tour. Robin said Nicole had agreed to a 49 percent cut of the profits, per the lawsuit.
The Pussycat Dolls founder said she spent a substantial amount of time working on the project.
Robin said the initial tour dates were rescheduled. The new tour dates were announced for 2021. Robin said Nicole then refused to perform unless the deal was renegotiated.
In court documents, Robin said Nicole demanded her 49 percent cut be increased to 75 percent of the profits and “complete creative control” along with “final-decision-making authority.”
“Tour dates were planned but are unable to be confirmed because of [Nicole’s] extortion,” the complaint read. Robin said she obtained a $600,000 advance from Live Nation for the tour and Live Nation was now asking for the advance back.
Nicole was a member for the Pussycat Dolls until 2009.
Nicole denied all allegations of wrongdoing and countersued Robin for $1.1 million in damages. Nicole’s lawyers wrote, “[Robin] breached her duties and obligations to [Nicole], severely damaged PCD’s good will, and wasted the funding for the planned PCD reunion tour, ruining PCD’s ability to do business through self-dealing, waste and fraud.”
Her lawyer claimed, “First, [Robin] falsely represented to Live Nation, without [Nicole’s] knowledge or consent, that [Nicole] had agreed to a PCD tour long before she did. [Robin] made the misrepresentation to Live Nation to induce it to pay her a $600,000 advance, which she took, although she has never shown [Nicole] what she did with those funds. [Robin’s] misrepresentations to Live Nation prevented PCD from negotiating a better deal once [Nicole] was participating in the plans for a PCD reunion tour.”
Further, “Second, in marketing material sent to potential concert buyers, [Nicole] falsely stated that [Nicole] would be part of the reunion, even though [Nicole] did not commit to the reunion until much later. [Robin] did so because she knew that using [Nicole’s] name would draw interest, and therefore revenues, from the concert buyers.” Nicole said that when she did join the planned reunion, she did everything in her power to make it a success.
Her lawyer noted, “She contributed more than $163,000 of her own money to pay PCD expenses, expenses which the money [Robin] took or diverted could have been used to pay, and that to this day have not been reimbursed. Not only was [Nicole] the only PCD member to personally contribute funds to pay reunion tour expenses, she was also the only one who never received any touring advance.”
In addition, her lawyer argued, “[Nicole] gave up other opportunities to perform worth at least $1,000,000 to participate in the PCD reunion, effectively contributing that amount to the project.”
She sued for damages in excess of $1.1 million. Both lawsuits have been resolved with the settlement.
