A $50 Million lawsuit that was filed against Nelly by Ali has been dropped.
Billboard.com was the first to report that Ali moved to drop the lawsuit on Apr. 10. Meanwhile, Nelly’s attorneys have requested the judge not to fully dismiss the case because they could countersue Ali for the “frivolous” lawsuit.
“Plaintiff’s counsel succeeded in its frivolous campaign aimed at forcing [Nelly] to spend money defending Plaintiff’s ridiculous time-barred claim,” Nelly’s legal team wrote in a statement. “The Court is respectfully requested to retain jurisdiction and set a briefing and hearing schedule for [potential sanctions].”
The original lawsuit, filed in September in Manhattan federal court, claimed that Nelly “manipulated” The St. Lunatics into believing they’d eventually score a major payday for their work on his 2000 smash album “Country Grammar.”
“Every time plaintiffs confronted defendant Haynes [he] would assure them as ‘friends’ he would never prevent them from receiving the financial success they were entitled to,” the lawsuit read.