Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Tyrese Drops Lawsuit Against Teddy Pendergrass' Widow


Last year Tyrese Gibson filed a lawsuit against the widow of R&B singer Teddy Pendergras after she refused to extend his option for the movie rights for Teddy's life [click here if you missed that]. 

Now Tyrese has dropped the suit...

Tyrese Gibson is no longer going after Teddy Pendergrass' widow. Documents obtained by RadarOnline.com show The Fast and Furious actor's company filed to dismiss the $1 million lawsuit against Joan Pendergrass over an alleged derailed biopic about the late soul singer's life.
Tyrese's production company, Voltron Entertainment, filed a Notice of Voluntary Dismissal on December 26, dismissing the case without prejudice. That means he can refile the lawsuit at a later date if he chooses to do so.
RadarOnline.com has reached out to Tyrese's team for comment.
As this outline reported, Tyrese sued Joan for $1 million in damages, claiming his production company secured the rights to her late husband's life story in 2011. He said she signed off on the deal in exchange for a $450k investment.
Fast-forward to 2022, Tyrese claimed Joan refused to sign the paperwork to extend the deal and accused her of "still promoting and shopping the project within the motion picture industry" and using his name to do so despite "excluding him" from the biopic. The Sweet Lady singer argued she was harming his reputation by "making representations to third parties that Mr. Gibson is attached to star in the Project."
Tyrese alleged that Joan's conduct not only "irreparably harmed" the biopic, "but also significantly harmed Mr. Gibson's and Voltron's professional reputations after they staked their names, efforts and money on the Project to promote it in the industry for nearly a decade, only to have it derailed just as it was getting off the ground with Warner Bros."
He also claimed that his company "suffered significant financial harm as a result of Joan's conduct," arguing Voltron "contributed several hundred thousand dollars to support and promote the Project in reliance on Joan's repeated representation and promise, which they otherwise would not have contributed."
Joan denied all allegations of wrongdoing, and argued that Tyrese's company assigned Warner Bros the rights to Teddy's life story in 2019, “thereby making Warner Bros. the successor-in-interest to Voltron with respect to the Option Agreement and Voltron no longer a party to the Option Agreement."
Joan called Tyrese a “poor businessman” who was “incapable of getting a movie made." RadarOnline.com exclusively revealed that Teddy's widow demanded the lawsuit against her be thrown out last month — and it looks like she got her wish.

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

Home Depot is next! He is gonna drop that 1 too!
Poor Ty

Anonymous said...

Look at him talking about God all the time but throwing up satanic hand gestures. He'll do anything to remain famous.

Anonymous said...

He is proof that mental illness is real in the black community

Anonymous said...

Teddy was one fine ssa man. Sheesh!!! I need a towel.

Anonymous said...

^^^ Here you go, darlin’ … Teddy bear, Teddy bear.

Anonymous said...

Why was Tyrese even a consideration??? He is OK looking but he aint no damn Teddy. Thats almost as bad as Lil Mama playing Left Eye.

Anonymous said...

...why entertainment law is profitable.

LOLOL said...

Ty was a handsome man when he was in that Coke commercial on the yellow bus, when his career first started. I was drooling at the TV set. Now I know why he was on the yellow bus. He turned into a crybaby, Simp.
His acting skills aren't good enough to hold my attention for this role. The ex-wife had second thoughts about him being in charge because of all his shenanigans.
The movie would lose its potential of making money. Z statis at best.

Anonymous said...

He's another one that needs to fade into obscurity. The day's of celebrity worship is over.

Anonymous said...

Close the door.

Anonymous said...

Tyrese gotta be on them drugs

Anonymous said...

2:32 Lil Mama did her thing playing Left Eye. I need to watch that biopic again.

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