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Madonna has pushed one of her fans over the borderline.
Known for sometimes starting concerts late – by up to a couple of hours on recent occasions – a fan has launched a class-action lawsuit against her for postponing the start time of a show. And it’s for one that hasn’t even taken place yet.
NBC reports that Florida’s Nate Hollander purchased three tickets (worth $1,024.95) for the December, 17th, date of her Madame X tour in Miami Beach.
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However, after he’d purchased the tickets, promoter Live Nation announced the original 8.30 pm start time had been pushed back to 10.30 pm. This means the concert now won’t end until nearly 1 am: too late for Hollander’s liking.
He filed a lawsuit in federal court in Miami-Dade County last week stating Live Nation had declined to refund him his money.
When a refund was turned down, he tried to re-sell the tickets. However, because the concert ends so late, his lawsuit claims fewer people are interested in buying them. This effectively reduces their worth and his ability to recoup his costs.
“Ticketholders had to work and go to school the next day, which prevented them from attending a concert that would end at around 1:00 am …Hollander attempted, without success, to obtain a refund for the three tickers purchased for the Madonna concert,” states his lawsuit.
Hollander claims Madonna and Live Nation “knew or should have known that said concerts would not start at 8:30 pm,” due to her showing up late to previous shows.
Last Thursday, Madonna was due to hit the stage at 10.30 pm at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace. However, she didn’t hit the stage till nearly 12.30 am – leaving some fans booing and demanding a refund.
It’s far from being the first time the singer has started concerts late in recent years. A date in Chicago last month was advertised for 8.30 pm but she didn’t hit the stage till 11 pm.
Hollander is suing for breach of contract and negligent misrepresentation and is seeking damages. He is now asking other disgruntled fans to join his class-action lawsuit.
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Madonna has not made an official response to the legal action. However, on Friday night in Vegas – perhaps in response to the controversy over her previous night’s lateness – she told the audience: “Here’s something you all need to understand … and that is, that the queen is never late.”
She posted a video clip to her Twitter and captioned it “F.A.C.T.S”
F. A.C.T.S. ? ……………….. #madamextheatre #thecolosseum pic.twitter.com/QBV99f1Y3I
— Madonna (@Madonna) November 9, 2019
JesseBenz22
I knew it would get bad as the years went on, but not THIS bad. She’s gotten so desperate. She really lost my respect years ago. At best, she’s an average singer who lost her mojo right around the same time MTV began to lose theirs. She should be humble, show up and do her job for her dwindling audience.
Cam
The headline made it sound like a more frivolous suit, but them changing the time after purchase and then refusing a refund when they’re the ones that changed the terms seems like a very valid reason for the suit.
Additionally, there is zero reason for her to be unable to show up to an 8:30 am concert, most people have to show up at work 12 hours earlier than that, and do it every day without problems.
curiobi
I think “bitch I’m Madonna” Sums it up. She does what she likes. Stop being whiney babies, if you buy a ticket for her concert make a freaking 24 hour trip out of it, have a blast, and except anything can happen including her starting the show late.
or here is an idea, don’t go. Stop acting like someone forced you to buy a damn ticket. You know the score with her by now, so just be like, Love you Mads but I am not sitting around for hours waiting for you to get your fabulous butt onstage!
But no you have to sue, so damn childish.
DuMaurier
Well, they could’ve just given the refund. Two hours late is two hours late.
Cam
So in other words, if you book a hotel and they told you check in is 3pm and you get there and they say “Or sorry, we changed the terms, you now have a single bed and check in is in 3 hours” you should just go with it?
brahbate
You might reassess your own attendance at these late-night events, perhaps more judiciously electing to remain at home brushing up on your grammar, spelling, and socialization skills.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
There is Diva behavior…
And there is Dbag behavior..
As someone who has mad respect for her decades of support for our community she needs to learn the difference
michel_banen
Concerts often start later than advertised. Grace Jones is always late, Guns n’ Roses used to be hours late [until the reunion and now that start perfectly on time since that’s included in their contract]. However, if there’s not a valid reason for a performer to start late (stuck in traffic, technical difficulties) then one might expect the show to start around the advertised time. If you go to the cinema you expect the movie to start at the scheduled time as well as when you attend a sports event.
rand503
Road shows are not like they were in the 70s. Today, they are loaded up with professional and experienced people who know how to put on a show.
Moroever, I’ve seen plenty of touring companies — symphony orchestras, art shows, lecturers, and whatnot, and they all know how to start on time. It’s a matter of proper scheduling. If Guns n Roses can show up on time, anyone can.
There really is no excuse for starting late. A few minutes late to build excitement? Sure. But two hours? There is no excuse.
Josh447
Seems the “Queen” who says she’s “never late”, is always late. And we think we’re heading into an age of authenticity. Transparency yes, authenticity welllllll…..i guess one can be an authentic assh***ole as she demonstrates quite well.
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
I’ll bet many of you would be surprised to learn Madonna is no saint when it comes to partying and not knowing when to quit. Elton John gave up on doing a tour with Billy Joel because of Joel’s partying ways and his forgetting that the show is expected to go on. There are pics of Madonna less than five years old on the internet that have her looking emaciated and totally wasted. Only die hard fans are willing to pay in excess of one hundred dollars to see her and shenanigans like this are going to make their numbers dwindle fast once they begin to ask themselves why are they paying to see someone who hasn’t hit the top three in nearly twenty years or better. Keep on honey, but people are watching and paying attention.
Heywood Jablowme
She’s on “gay standard time” lol.
jrex100
It has long been said that “Punctuality is the politeness of royalty.”
iauajo
Madonna who? No, I don’t her.
[email protected]
When I was lucky to get tickets from the live nation lottery, 2nd round the concert was for 830pm. Later about a week before the show the email stated 1030pm was the start time. Not the new time but just the start time. It was also exclusively a mobile ticket but it was a cell phone free event. I didn’t have the opportunity to even sell the tickets. Additionally the tickets weren’t even on my Ticketmaster account until 24 hours before the show.
We got done at 2:30am after most public transportation was finished for the night and Uber/Lyft had surge pricing if you could even get one.
I wouldn’t do a show again that late but I did enjoy the actual show.
I doubt I’d go through the effort to see her again. Too much of a hassle.
khan72
YOU ARE NOT A QUEEN, YOU ARE A SINGER. PAID TO DO A JOB, AND LIKE EVERY JOB, YOU NEED TO TURN UP ON TIME. WAKE UP TO YOURSELF
JMac2014
Post Super Storm Sandy NYC. The city and surrounding areas had been hit very hard and was recovering slowly, public transportation was running erratically if at all, local business were hurting, portions of the city (including my neighborhood) had been without power or heat for weeks . Her show was at MSG, a weeknight performance, doors opened at 7pm – she decides to show up sometime after 11pm, meanwhile we’ve all been held hostage for hours. People actually left before she started.
When Madonna does finally decided to appear, after a few songs she has the gall to chastise the audience for not throwing more money at the stage in her lame attempt to collect money for local victims of the storm.
Her show ended around 1am (I seem to think she dragged Psy out for a few songs) – too late for anyone who was planning on going out after the show to spend dollars in local restaurant or pubs, everything was closed, trains had stopped running – god knows how folks from Long Island got back home. So much for helping out the community. It was a nightmare.
Proof how self important she is. She was so ignorant to what was going on in the city at that time. While I’ve seen her several times in the past I will never pay a dime to see her again.
The “Queen” is dead! Move over clueless lady – let folks who know what’s going on in the world outside of their own dressing room take the stage, like GaGa, a perfect example of an artist that cares about her art and her fans.
Jack Meoff
She gets more delusions of grandeur the older she gets.
cwaigy
The bigger they are, the harder that fall. This shows no respect for the people who made her famous. Celebrities seem to forget that they are famous because of the fans paying for their art! Time to let them know enough is enough