Country singer Luke Combs has stepped in to financially support a fan who was sued for $250,000 by - let me just check - ah yes, country singer Luke Combs.
Nicol Harness was hit with a trademark lawsuit by a company representing Combs for selling homemade tumblers featuring the musician’s face. She made local news, after going public to say that the lawsuit meant that she was unable to pay outstanding medical bills.
Her Amazon storefront account, via which she sold the tumblers, was shut down and funds associated with it frozen as a result of the legal action, she explained.
Combs said that he had been unaware of the case until he had seen the news report and had initially not even been sure who had filed it. Learning about Harness’s plight, he said, had made him “sick to my stomach”.
“We have a company that goes after folks”, he explained in a video on social media. “Only, supposedly, large corporations operating internationally that make millions and millions of dollars making counterfeit T-shirts, things of that nature, running illegal businesses”.
“And apparently this woman Nicol has got somehow wrapped into that”, he went on, “and that makes me absolutely sick to my stomach”.
In an effort to make amends, he confirmed that he was sending Harness $11,000 - double that which was frozen in her Amazon account - in order to pay her medical bills. He added that he would also be selling his own tumblers on his website with all proceeds going to Harness.