Dave Navarro is suing his former Jane’s Dependancy bandmate Perry Farrell for assault and battery following their on-stage altercation throughout a live performance in September 2024. Moreover, Navarro, together with fellow Jane’s Dependancy members Eric Avery and Stephen Perkins, are suing Perry for emotional misery, negligence, and breach of contract over the next cancelation of the band’s tour following the incident. Navarro, Avery, and Perkins are searching for a minimal of $10 million in damages.
TMZ was the primary to report information of the lawsuit.
Throughout Jane’s Dependancy live performance at Boston’s Chief Financial institution Pavilion on September thirteenth, 2024, Farrell shoved and punched Navarro earlier than being separated by Avery and the band’s crew. The band subsequently canceled the rest of the tour — which had marked the primary that includes its basic lineup in 14 years.
Based on the grievance filed by Navarro, Avery, and Perkins, the on-stage altercation was really the fruits of erratic habits Perry had exhibited all through the tour. The frontman apparently almost stop the tour forward of the kickoff present in Las Vegas, after the remainder of the band—who had beforehand agreed to function democratically on all main choices as a situation of their reunion—voted in opposition to permitting Farrell’s spouse, Etty Lau Farrell, to bounce on stage.
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Because the tour progressed, Jane’s Dependancy’s members allegedly noticed that Perry “commonly appeared onstage in a complicated state of intoxication. He would usually drink wine onstage and slur his speech. Perry ceaselessly went on lengthy, rambling discursions between songs for no obvious goal aside from for his personal amusement. The issues with Perry’s efficiency would usually worsen because the evening wore on and he grew to become extra intoxicated.”
Within the grievance, Navarro revealed that on the time of the incident, he was affected by the results of lengthy COVID, and that Perry’s bodily assault on stage in Boston got here at a second when he was “nonetheless weak.” The altercation allegedly continued backstage, with Navarro claiming that Farrell “threw one other sudden punch at him, placing him on the left aspect of the face.”
Following the September thirteenth incident, Farrell issued a public apology, saying he took “full accountability” for his actions. He additionally reportedly sought medical consideration for vocal points that plagued him on the tour.
Nevertheless, Navarro, Avery, and Perkins determined to cancel the remainder of the tour, in addition to a deliberate reunion album in progress. As a part of their go well with, the trio is searching for to get well cash misplaced from the tour’s cancelation and potential future earnings.
In a current interview with Guitar Participant, Navarro mirrored on what has now turn out to be Jane’s Dependancy’s last live performance, calling it “my least favourite gig that I’ve ever performed.” He additionally dominated out any risk of the band performing collectively once more.