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Insane Clown Posse festival faces bankruptcy, as rap duo are sued by former publicist

By | Published on Monday 23 September 2013

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Insane Clown Posse didn’t have a great week last week. First the rap duo’s former publicist launched a lawsuit against them, alleging that she had been sexually harassed by other members of staff at their label, and had been asked to obtain illegal weapons for photo shoots, amongst other things. Then reports emerged that the Posse’s seemingly popular annual Gathering Of The Juggalos festival is actually struggling financially.

According to The Southern, a number of creditors are complaining that they have not been paid in relation to services provided for this year’s edition of the festival, while others who have received cheques say that they’ve bounced. Debts are thought to reach into the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Patrick Gail, the owner of one company owed money, Event-Tex, said in a statement that his company had never had problems with the event in the past but a cheque for $54,000 this year had not cleared. He added: “In conversation with many of the other vendors who were contracted for the event, it has been learned that none of them have been paid. The total amount owed from our discussions with the vendors exceeds $300,000”.

Following those reports, the duo’s label, Psychopathic Records, issued a statement to The Associated Press saying: “Putting on a five day music festival this ambitious is a very time consuming and expensive process. Unfortunately, in our attempt to provide the best possible event for our fans, expenses exceeded estimates and expectations, which we had not previously planned for. The company putting on the event, Juggalo Gathering Inc, has no intention of turning its back on these financial obligations and is in the process of preparing a plan to take care of all vendors. We thank all of our vendors for their understanding”.

Earlier last week, Psychopathic Records was already in the news after the company’s former publicist Andrea Pellegrini launched a lawsuit alleging that she and others employed there had been the target of various incidents of abuse and other dubious activity at various points since she starting working for the firm in 2009.

According to TMZ, this includes being told by a colleague that he had a “fat cock” and that “he’d like to fuck her”, and later being given a dildo as a gift by the same colleague after she changed her Facebook status to ‘single’. She also says that she was refused access to private toilets at the Gathering Of The Juggalos and was instead forced to use shared facilities “often full with naked male strangers”.

Her lawsuit is specifically suing for wrongful termination of her contract, as well as seeking damages for “fright and shock” suffered while working for ICP, as well as “horror, outrage and indignity”.



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