celeb news Lawsuits & Whatnot: Roc Nation Exec. messes with Xtina, Steals Icecream Deal Idea

[Sharamee6]

https://www.intouchweekly.com/posts/christina-aguileras-sued-private-texts-exposed-in-lawsuit/

 

Christina Aguilera's Private Texts Exposed in Lawsuit Over Ice Cream Business Deal Gone South

 

Christina Aguilera was hit with a lawsuit by a former business partner who claims she had him spent months on creating an ice cream business for her, only to back out at the last minute, In Touch can exclusively report.

According to court documents obtained by In Touch, a businessman named John Herzog, his company Herzog Holdings, LLC, and Xquistitely Frozen, LLC, filed a lawsuit against Christina, Roc Nation, Roc's executive,Laurence "Jay" Brown, and another Roc employee named Sarah Francus.

 

The suit accuses the defendants of breach of contract, intentional interference with contractual relations — and a claim of fraud against Jay and Roc Nation. In 2020, Christina left her longtime manager and signed with Jay-Z's management company Roc Nation.

In his lawsuit, John said, "Seeking to cement this new relationship and demonstrate his and Roc Nation's value to [Christina], [Jay] approached [John], a well-known marketing, branding, production, distribution, and food and wine industry expert — to persuade [John] to develop a beverage product and brand for [Christina]."

John said he has known Jay for years and worked on several other projects with him.

 

John said he was initially skeptical, but said Roc Nation's Jay promised the "Ain't No Other Man" singer was hard-working and said Roc's other celebrity clients would assist in promotion.

John said he was persuaded by these promises and proposed that Christina sell ice cream and frozen desserts, instead of beverages. They envisioned the deal potentially being worth as much as George Clooney's Casamigos Tequila or Rihanna's Fenty Beauty.

 

John said the parties worked out a deal to develop Xquistitely Frozen, an ice cream brand for Christina. However, John said at one point Jay "decided he liked" John's ice cream idea "so much that he wanted an ice cream brand of his own — and he wanted [John] to develop and market it."

John said he then entered another deal with Jay to develop Jay's line of ice cream called Madison Brown. John said Jay promised he would tell Christina about his product.

 

John claims that after Jay got his deal in place he stopped being fully invested in Christina's deal.

He accused Jay of slowing down Christina's deal to benefit his competing Madison Brown ice cream project.

The suit accused Roc Nation defendants of slowing down the project by making unreasonable demands, causing Christina to miss meetings, switching up the deal to sell paletas instead of ice cream after substantial development and money spent, and ultimately killing the deal by directing Christina to breach the license agreement they had in place. "[Christina] was kept completely in the dark about Madison Brown," the suit claimed.

Edited August 21 by Sharamee6

[bjorn]

Oh she ova 

[ICLDXU4HS]

This is clearly Cherlato scheming behind the scenes.

[ChooseyLover]

This was an interesting read cause now the world is finding out how scummy Roc Nation is as a business partner. I can't believe that if it wasn't for that man's ego right now we would have spent a summer or two eating Xtina ice creams instead of seeing her socials filled with stupid lube commercials.

 

I can see why Xtina sided with Roc Nation since I think they have a working relationship in other aspects of her career (probably musically too? Fighters pls fill me in). But this is sad. She did seem excited especially about the original vision of the project.

Edited August 21 by ChooseyLover
So Roc Nation has two CEOs called Jay ctfu. Point still stands. Roc Nation = shitty business partner

[Taylor fanboy]

The OP

 

[Sheep]

Jay Brown isn't Jay Z I refuse to believe this was an honest mistake, especially after the Mrs Carter tour, The Carters album, and Cowboy Carter. Even somebody in a white gay bubble would know his name is Shawn Carter  

Edited August 21 by Sheep

[ToMmY]

What copy/paste mess is this? The ****

[Illuminati]

Not him saying she ditched ice cream for dildos

[Taste of Honey]

6 minutes ago, Sheep said:

Jay Brown isn't Jay Z I refuse to believe this was an honest mistake, especially after the Mrs Carter tour, The Carters album, and Cowboy Carter. Even somebody in a white gay bubble would know his name is Shawn Carter  

But you know you know better than to expect that, so...

[ShouldersSideways]

How embarrassing for you.  You even went out of your way to bold Laurence "Jay" Brown and it never occurred to you that's not the same person as Shawn Carter?

Edited August 21 by ShouldersSideways

[suburbannature]

Jay-Z:

 

 

[nostalgic]

Not Jay Brown  close this thread

[Sharamee6]

10 minutes ago, ShouldersSideways said:

How embarrassing for you.  You even went out of your way to bold Laurence "Jay" Brown and it never occurred to you that's not the same person as Shawn Carter?

I have no idea what you're talking about. Are you imagining things?

 

 

[Princess Aurora]

The Nekci Menij show would have a field day with all this material