Beyonce Sued for $100 Million

Beyonce Knowles-Carter is the focus of a $100 million lawsuit filed yesterday by software developer Gate Five LLC. The company alledges Beyonce reneged on a deal to develop a motion-sensing dance video game and is taking the superstar to court for what they claim was “a bad faith breach of contract so callous that, on what appeared to be a whim, she destroyed Gate Five’s business and drove 70 people into unemployment, the week before Christmas.”

Gate Five claim to have lost $6.7 million in developing Starpower: Beyonce - the video game’s working title - and $100 million in profits. The summons reads as follows:

“Ms. Carter breached the Services and Exclusive License Agreement she entered into with Gate Five by abruptly abandoning the lucrative joint venture she and Gate Five were pursuing to commercialize a video game called Starpower: Beyonce. Though she had already negotiated lavish compensation terms to which she was contractually bound, Ms. Carter, at a crucial moment in the project’s development, made an extortionate demand for entirely new compensation terms she suddenly decided she wanted. When her maneuver backfired and drove away the financier (who found Ms. Carter too erratic to do business with), she pulled out of the project in breach of the Agreement. Her actions were so unscrupulous that her then manager (who is also her father) renounced them, while a senior executive of the company that had agreed to finance the project condemned her conduct as ‘morally reprehensible’ in an e-mail he sent to one of her talent agents”

Beyonce and her representatives are yet to release a statement addressing the lawsuit.