Stewart

SUMMARY

Plaintiffs in this case are concert promoter Howard Pollack, doing business as PM Group, Inc., and two subpromoters, Achilles Sojo doing business as AKE Music and Richard Leon Velarde doing business as Boulevard CIE. Defendants are singer Rod Stewart, his company Stewart Annoyances, Ltd., his manager Annie Challis of Stiefel Entertainment, his attorney Barry Tyerman of the then Armstrong Hirsch Jackoway Tyerman & Wertheimer (AH), and his agent Steve Levine of International Creative Management (ICM).

Plaintiffs sued for the return of $780,000 deposited toward a concert tour by Stewart that did not materialize and for interference with contract and prospective economic advantage. Stewart cross-complained for $2.1 million, the full amount he would have been paid for the tour.

In a special verdict, the jury found the parties never entered into a binding contract for Stewart’s services. The jury awarded plaintiffs $780,000 on theories of money had and received and negligent misrepresentation by Challis and Levine. The jury also found defendants Tyerman and Levine intentionally interfered with subcontracts for concert performances by Stewart, which plaintiffs had…