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Fans are trying to sue Madonna over a lack of sleep. And no, we’re not kidding. On Wednesday, April 3, the “Like a Virgin” singer requested for a federal judge to dismiss a class action lawsuit, which was filed by two individuals after they attended her New York City concert at Barclays Center in Brooklyn in December 2023, court documents show.
The Brooklyn show was scheduled to begin at 8:30PM but instead began a whole two hours later at 10:30PM. It was attendees Michael Fellows and Jonathan Hadden who filed the lawsuit against Madonna back in January.
Madonna’s Legal Team Find Some Inconsistencies
However, Madonna finds the grounds of the lawsuit completely far-fetched. Fellows and Hidden stated a need to “get up early to go to work” the following morning as the reasoning behind the lawsuit, but Madonna felt this did not constitute legal “injury” for which a person can be sued.
The two individuals claimed Madonna’s delayed show as “wanton exercise in false advertising, negligent misrepresentation, and unfair and deceptive trade practices.”
Madonna’s legal team found the whole situation rather preposterous, insisting that delayed starts are a common recurrence in showbiz and therefore shouldn’t reflect poorly on their client in any way.
“Nowhere did Defendants advertise that Madonna would take the stage at 8.30 p.m., and no reasonable concertgoers — and certainly no Madonna fan — would expect the headline act at a major arena concert to take the stage at the ticketed event time,” Madonna’s attorney stated, according to OK!
The Complaints May Be an Elaborate Grasping At Straws
“Rather, a reasonable concertgoer would understand that the venue’s doors will open at or before the ticketed time, one or more opening acts may perform while attendees arrive and make their way to their seats and before the headline act takes the stage, and the headline act will take the stage later in the evening,” Madonna’s legal team continued.
The court documents also contained a lack of complaints from Fellows or Hadden as far as Madonna’s performance itself, suggesting it was indeed worth waiting for.
Not once did they allude to Madonna’s performance being subpar, or “that her performance was worth less than what they paid, or that they left the concert before watching her entire performance.”
