Stones Cancel Concert, Fan Sues for $51M
The Rolling Stones on Tuesday cancelled an upcoming concert in Hawaii and rescheduled three other performances, while a fan sued the band for $51 million for pulling out of a New Jersey show last week.
Singer Mick Jagger, 63, has been hit with a sore throat, forcing the last-minute postponement of Friday’s Atlantic City show, a rare theater show in New York that was delayed by a day until Wednesday and now stadium gigs in Oakland, Calif., Vancouver, Canada, and Los Angeles.
Additionally, a November 22 date scheduled for Honolulu’s Aloha Stadium — their first in Hawaii since 1998 — has been cancelled. The band’s spokeswoman said she did not know why it was scrapped, but the Stones have been dogged by poor ticket sales in some cities. It also would have been costly for the band to fly in its huge stage and a large retinue.
Meanwhile, a fan from Brooklyn on Tuesday sued the Stones for $51 million for cancelling their October 27 concert in Atlantic City, New Jersey, four hours before it was scheduled to start.
Rosalie Druyan filed a class-action lawsuit in Manhattan Supreme Court on Tuesday accusing Jagger and the Stones of fraud and in acting in bad faith because of the cancellation, which she said cost her and thousands of fans money on non-refundable hotel bookings.
The suit charges that Jagger sought medical attention before the concert and knew he would not perform but did not disclose that in time for ticket-holders to cancel travel reservations.
Druyan bought a pair of tickets on the Internet for $575 and said she was not notified about the cancellation until it was too late to cancel her $300 hotel reservations at the Trump Taj Mahal. A spokeswoman was not immediately available to comment on the suit.
The rock legends have announced that the postponed Atlantic City concert has been re-scheduled for November 17.
The second North American leg of their “Bigger Bang” world tour will now end on November 25 in Vancouver, which originally was set to host the Stones on Friday.
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