The notorious onstage altercation between Jane’s Dependancy frontman Perry Farrell and different members of the band, in September 2024, is way from over. It has come to gentle that the 2 events filed separate lawsuits on Wednesday.
Farrell filed a authorized criticism — not a countersuit — towards former bandmates Dave Navarro, Eric Avery, and Stephen Perkins, simply hours after the trio sued him. In a 30-page criticism, Farrell accuses the previous members of orchestrating a years-long marketing campaign of bullying and harassment aimed toward undermining him. He additionally alleges that he had no say in canceling their tour and breaking apart the band.
In it, he says the altercation was spurred by his frustration over the opposite bandmembers’ “enjoying their devices at a excessive quantity in order that he couldn’t hear himself sing with out blasting his personal in-ear screens at an unsafe stage,” and that Navarro assaulted Farrell and his spouse backstage.
Navarro, Avery and Perkins issued their lawsuit on Wednesday morning towards Farrell, citing the onstage altercation between Navarro and Farrell that resulted within the cancellation of their reunion tour and, apparently, the ultimate dissolution of the long-running alt-rock band. The band members are searching for no less than $10 million from Farrell, claiming within the lawsuit that the group misplaced that quantity because of the tour’s cancellation and the suspension of all band actions.
In an announcement shared with Selection, it’s famous, “This harassment escalated on September 13, 2024 to bodily violence by Navarro and Avery towards Farrell onstage throughout the Boston present and the assault of each Perry and Etty Lau Farrell backstage by Navarro. These altercations precipitated the choice by Navarro, Avery and Perkins to each name off the remainder of the band’s North American tour.”