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Legal
Man sues TI over impossible out of jail gig
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 22 October 2010
More legal woes for TI, this time of the civil kind. The rapper is being sued by a man called Carl Davis over his failure to play a gig back in May designed to celebrate his release from prison. The fact TI’s probation terms forbid him from leaving his home at the time of the gig is a very good excuse, but not one that helps Davis. He claims he lost his life savings in the ill fated ‘Welcome Back Party’, and suffered chest pains and nausea from the stress the whole thing caused.
Davis originally approached a man called Jervon Morgan about his idea for a ‘TI is out of jail’ event, he being related to the rapper and claiming to work as an agent for him. Morgan put the promoter in touch with TI’s business partner Jason Geter, who runs the rapper’s Grand Hustle record company. And so a deal was done. According to Davis, Morgan and Geter took up front payments from him, and let him start promoting the event, while concealing “the fact from Davis that artist TI was on probation, on three years of supervised release and under home confinement as a condition of his plea agreement”.
Despite TI telling a local radio station ahead of the gig he himself would not be able to appear, it seems Davis was under the impression the rapper would perform right until the last minute. He is suing for misrepresentation, promissory fraud, conspiracy, unjust enrichment and breach of contract and wants unspecified compensatory and punitive damages.
TI, of course, is about to head back to jail after breaching the terms of his latest probation by being caught in possession of illegal drugs.
