Following their 2024 onstage fist fight that immediately ended the band’s tour, Perry Farrell has filed a lawsuit against Jane’s Addiction members Dave Navarro, Eric Avery and Stephen Perkins, just hours after the three members sued him earlier on Wednesday (7.16.)
According to the lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles, Farrell maintains that the rest of the band were the original aggressors in the September 2024 incident that culminated in him punching Navarro while performing. The frontman further claimed that the band took part in a “years-long bullying campaign” where they harassed him onstage and attempted to “undermine him by playing their instruments at a high volume so that he could not hear himself sing without blasting his own in-ear monitors at an unsafe level”.
Now 66-year old, Perry claimed that the group’s alleged harassment “escalated on 13 September 2024 to physical violence by Navarro and Avery against Farrell onstage during the Boston show, and the assault of both Perry and (his wife) Etty Lau Farrell backstage by Navarro”.
Farrell’s claim disputes the band’s original complaint that Perry attacked Navarro and continued to attack him backstage. Farrell alleged the rest of Jane’s Addiction used him as a “scapegoat” to cancel the rest of the tour.
“Perry Farrell was blindsided by not being allowed either input into this decision or even to be heard, leaving him unable to plead his case to continue the tour for Jane’s Addiction’s fans,” the suit detailed.
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Author: Saul Goode
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