R. Kelly is understandably a busy man but one music promoter is claiming that the R&B star charged him just for being considered for a show.
Via TMZ:
R. Kelly pissed off a concert promoter by pulling out of an upcoming show, and stiffing the guy on his hefty deposit … this according to the promoter who just hit Kelly with a Texas-sized lawsuit.
Darryl Austin says he hand delivered a $100k deposit to Kelly’s team in January for him to headline an April concert in Dallas. According to the docs … when February rolled around R. Kelly’s rep played dumb and claimed to know nothing about the show.
Austin says the real insult came when the self-proclaimed Pied Piper of R&B returned the deposit … $30,000 SHORT!!
Austin wants the court to either force Kelly to do the show … or pay back the dough.
The good news is that this is the most favorable R. Kelly lawsuit within in the past year. On a side note, who’s still booking R. Kelly when you got other R&B cats out here doing it big in the present day?
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