November 3, 2004
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Lawsuit Follows Violence
Tour ends with
performers'
animosity
Jay-Z (left) and R. Kelly perform Thursday during a concert at
Nasssau Coliseum in Uniondale, N. Y. (AP photo)
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(AP) — Singer R Kelly sued
rapper Jay-Z on Monday tor $75
ini I lion, al leging Jay-Z's "spite and
jealousy” prompted him to use
violence to force Kelly ott their
national tour.
The breach of contract suit sug
gests Jay-Z was perturbed be
cause Kelly was the higher-paid
performer. The animosity led to
deliberate lighting flubs and other
te ch n ic al p ro b lem s, violence
against Kelly, and threats to force
the promoter to drop him. court
papers say. The promoter is also
named as a defendant.
Kelly, whose best-known hit is
“1 Believe I Can Fly,” accused one
of Jay-Z’s associates of blasting
him with pepper spray early Satur
day at Madison Square Garden.
He was treated at a hospital and
released.
A short tim e later, the to u r’s
prom oter, A tlanta W orldw ide
Touring, fired Kelly. H eandJay-
Z were in the m iddle o f a 40-city
tour that had been plagued by
canceled show s and reports the
tw o refused to speak to each
other.
The tour was supposed to be
"the perfect marriage o f hip-hop
and R&B," said Kelly’s lawyer,
Edward Hayes. “ Instead, it’s go
ing to be a terrible divorce.”
Atlanta W orldwide said Sun- j
day that the tour has been can
celed. Jay-Z ’s publicist said he
was unsure whether the rapper
would try to fill the remaining dates
as a solo act.
A statement from Island Def
Jam Records, which Jay-Z is slated
to take over, blamed K elly’s “lack i
of professionalism and unpredict
able behavior” for cancellation of
the tour.
K e lly ’s c o u rt p ap e rs s u g
gested that the tension betw een
the two m usicians w as the result
o f K elly’s larger profit split: 60
percent o f the first $15 m illion J
earned to Ja y -Z 's 40
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Democratic Presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., has lunch at the Union Oyster House
after voting on Election Day in Boston Tuesday. Left is his wife Teresa Heinz Kerry, and right is
longtime friend and former campaign manager Chris Greeley. (AP photo)
Kerry Sticks to Lucky Routine
Turnout large as
votes are tallied
(AP) — At the end, John Kerry
looked for a little luck to carry him
through.
Upon his return to M assachu
setts Tuesday, after more than five
weeks of nonstop campaigning,
Kerry bent over and touched the
ground. He ate his traditional elec
tion-day lunch o f littleneck clams
and a dark beer at his lucky restau
rant, Boston’s historic Union O ys
ter House.
He was loaded down with other
charms - a four-leaf clover, an Ohio
buckeye, Bruce Springsteen’s gui
tar pick, his hat from Vietnam, a
Bible from former Sen. MaxCleland,
rosary beads, a cross and a medal of
St. Christopher, the patron saint of
travelers. He had been to church
three times in the two days before
the election.
After months of campaigning,
the choice was out o f his hands.
Kerry was reflective and nostal
gic, even teary-eyed as he distrib
uted gifts to his staff on the final
campaign flight. He said he was
confident he had made his case.
“Am erica’s a strong country and
I think we can be stronger, but
that’s up to the American people
what road we go,” he said after
casting his vote at the M assachu
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