Woman to sue Stones for scrapping show
Tuesday Oct 31 12:46 AEDT
Rosalie Druyan wants to stick the Rolling Stones between a rock and a hard place with a $US51 million ($A66.37 million) lawsuit.
Shattered when Mick Jagger's sore throat scrapped the Rolling Stones concert in Atlantic City - four hours before its scheduled start - the Stones superfan from Brooklyn is taking the wrinkly rockers to court.
In a class-action suit to be filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, Druyan contends the late cancellation cost her and other fans big bucks on non-refundable hotel reservations, forcing them to spend the night together in cold and rainy Atlantic City.
"Talk about no satisfaction," quipped lawyer Martin Druyan, who is representing his wife in the case.
The Stones - who are set to play the Beacon Theatre on Tuesday night for a Martin Scorcese concert film on the legendary band - cancelled their show at Boardwalk Hall when Jagger came down with a sore throat. But the bad news didn't come soon enough for Rosalie Druyan, who last month had bought a pair of tickets to the show for $US575 ($A748).
"People came from all over to see the Stones," she said.
"When you talk about travel expenses, hotel and baby-sitting expenses, that's not a cheap day."
Druyan said she received a Ticketmaster e-mail on her BlackBerry notifying her of the cancellation when she was a few kilometres from Atlantic City. By then it was too late to cancel a $US300 ($A390) reservation at the Trump Taj Mahal and too rainy to drive back to Brooklyn.
"We were bored for nothing," said Druyan.
The Stones announced that another Atlantic City concert will be held on November 17 and that refunds are available for ticket holders who can't make that date.
But Druyan and her husband, who have attended nearly 50 Stones shows between them, won't be among those going back to Atlantic City. A spokeswoman for the band was not available for comment.
"We're real Stones fans, and we see them everywhere," Rosalie Druyan said.
"But we won't be seeing them at the make-up concert."
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=66315
30th October 2006 09:31 PM
glencar
$51 million? just amazing.
30th October 2006 09:33 PM
mrhipfl
I hope she wins.
30th October 2006 09:39 PM
robpop
quote:mrhipfl wrote:
I hope she wins.
I heard she hired JB.
30th October 2006 09:41 PM
mrhipfl
quote:robpop wrote:
I heard she hired JB.
All is lost.
30th October 2006 09:42 PM
pdog
I want in... Wait til' the subpoenas start dropping on staff memebers, emails are in evidence, casinos are seens as holding back the cancelation to get asses in the casinos...
Regardless, good for her, as a Californian, I think everyone should sue someone at least once... I look forward to suing someone one day!
I heard Telecaster is going in front of Judge Judy for stiffing everyone on Chicago!
30th October 2006 09:50 PM
MrPleasant
I hope that Scorsese is filming something about this.
30th October 2006 09:59 PM
robpop
Since the fall US tour was for tax purposes, the tour maybe extended even longer to legal costs.
30th October 2006 10:06 PM
pdog
quote:robpop wrote:
Since the fall US tour was for tax purposes, the tour maybe extended even longer to legal costs.
Funny...
Tax shelters to rulings!
rock and roll is dead!
30th October 2006 10:18 PM
Bingo
French girls they want Cartier
Italian girls want cars
Brooklyn girls want 51 million dollars
30th October 2006 10:21 PM
Sir Stonesalot
I don't think that they have a snowball's chance in hell of winning, but I wish her luck.
30th October 2006 10:32 PM
rolling who
Figures it's a woman...that's all they know how to do is sue.
30th October 2006 10:34 PM
Paranoid_Android
If it's a class-action-suit...don't ALL ticket holders have a right to be in the suit?
Let's see...51 mill...div by 12K...= $4250.00 each...
All Stones fans raise your fists and yell "CAH-CHING!!!"
30th October 2006 10:36 PM
Nellcote
To quote the Jerky Boys..."Sue Everybody"
30th October 2006 10:47 PM
Sir Stonesalot
>Figures it's a woman...that's all they know how to do is sue.<
Not true. My woman knows how to do lots of stuff....most of it makes me smile. And she ain't never sued anyone.
30th October 2006 10:49 PM
Scottfree
quote:Nellcote wrote:
To quote the Jerky Boys..."Sue Everybody"
Don't forget your glasses and your shoes...
30th October 2006 10:50 PM
MrPleasant
quote:rolling who wrote:
Figures it's a woman...that's all they know how to do is sue.
Marcello differs
30th October 2006 11:11 PM
pdog
I sued a man in Brooklyn, just to watch him die!
31st October 2006 12:02 AM
GotToRollMe
quote:Paranoid_Android wrote:
If it's a class-action-suit...don't ALL ticket holders have a right to be in the suit?
Let's see...51 mill...div by 12K...= $4250.00 each...
All Stones fans raise your fists and yell "CAH-CHING!!!"
That is correct, grasshopper!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_action_suit#United_States
[Edited by GotToRollMe]
31st October 2006 12:51 AM
Dan
quote:robpop wrote:
I heard she hired JB.
As portrayed by Steven Seagal in the new Martin Scorcese movie.
31st October 2006 04:32 AM
jostorm
Good luck to her! Perhaps that's why it never happened before, no one with a lawyer in their bed had gotten outraged enough to sue.... It certainly beats us just bitching but doing zilch about it (apart from staying away from shows, which, let's face it, they may not even notice...)
May she win, may everyone get their money back, may the bastards finally stop for a second and have to read the writing on the fucking wall!
31st October 2006 04:53 AM
Gazza
quote:Sir Stonesalot wrote:
I don't think that they have a snowball's chance in hell of winning, but I wish her luck.
likewise, although how the hell did she run up a $51 million hotel bill? Did Tele show up or something?
31st October 2006 04:57 AM
charlotte
lawyers will say this was not a legal concert because the arrangements were made in Thailand...during an Hindu ceremony
Please read
case 263546969:Hall v. Jagger
31st October 2006 05:00 AM
jostorm
LOL!
31st October 2006 05:05 AM
Gazza
quote:charlotte wrote:
lawyers will say this was not a legal concert because the arrangements were made in Thailand...during an Hindu ceremony
Please read
case 263546969:Hall v. Jagger
Now youre simply being ridiculous....
it was Bali, not Thailand....
Do carry on...
[Edited by Gazza]
31st October 2006 05:50 AM
lotsajizz
she doesn't have a leg to stand on...it'll never make it past the dispositive stage....
31st October 2006 08:15 AM
Bitch
Even if she gets no money from it, she makes a valid point and MAYBE the STONES camp will notice that people are mad enough to try and sue them! It could open up their eyes a little!
31st October 2006 08:24 AM
Lazy Bones
quote:Bitch wrote:
Even if she gets no money from it, she makes a valid point and MAYBE the STONES camp will notice that people are mad enough to try and sue them! It could open up their eyes a little!
Sounds good, but, the Stones stopped caring about people a long time ago. Unfortunately, if it's not in their best interest, they don't give a shit.
31st October 2006 08:55 AM
gimmekeef
Lady..read the fine print on your ticket and Ticketbastard website:
"Non Refundable and be aware at any time the band or ticket agent may fuck you at will and likely will"
31st October 2006 09:02 AM
TampabayStone
quote:pdog wrote:
I sued a man in Brooklyn, just to watch him die!
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