Celeb News: NFL demanding $16.6 million from M.I.A.

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M.I.A. wasn't paid for the event as is the custom of the league. But nevertheless, the NFL spent the first two years of arbitration demanding $1.5 million for allegedly breaching her performance contract and tarnishing its goodwill and reputation.

Now the NFL has added an additional claim, seeking $15.1 million more in "restitution" as the alleged value of public exposure she received by appearing for an approximately two minute segment during Madonna's performance. The figure is based on what advertisers would have paid for ads during this time. "The claim for restitution lacks any basis in law, fact, or logic," say M.I.A.'s response papers, filed on Friday.

"NFL, and NBC, failed to exercise ordinary care in the conduct of the Halftime show by not activating the '5 second delay' system in place for the broadcast," says M.I.A.'s papers. "Any alleged fault or liability of Respondents should be diminished by NBC's dereliction. Discovery has not been taken yet to determine whether contractually NBC owed a duty to NFL to properly operate the delay system. Very likely that is indeed the case."

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr...on-mias-689017

Haunter

Overreacting.

zezar

What kind of drama queens. ch...

Jimmy.

Mess at this still going on

jayyyxtee

How is money going to fix this.... who even gets that money

I have a college tuition to pay they should give 5% of that money to me

Medo

Thirsty queens tryna milk M.I.A for some money. Free country my ass..

madonnafan18

They need to let this go.

Homogenic

Queen of controversy, only the Artist

And the fact that she completely overshadowed Madonna's performance that year

Bdawg

well not that I agree with her having to pay that much, but after all she was the one who did that. What did she expect?

LatinFreak

Doogle

They're such trash.

Diarrhoea

Oh my

#justice4maya

Quietly Trek

Unnecessary. Go get that money from Aaron Hernandez, who killed someone. That probably did more damage to your reputation than a finger.

BILLIONAIRE✘BOY

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Originally posted by Quietly Trek

Unnecessary. Go get that money from Aaron Hernandez, who killed someone. That probably did more damage to your reputation than a finger.

Oop

elliotis19

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Originally posted by Quietly Trek

Unnecessary. Go get that money from Aaron Hernandez, who killed someone. That probably did more damage to your reputation than a finger.

Exactly!

FatShady

Oh ffs.

iC0NIC

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Originally posted by Quietly Trek

Unnecessary. Go get that money from Aaron Hernandez, who killed someone. That probably did more damage to your reputation than a finger.

Pretty much.

wanderlust

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Originally posted by Homogenic

Queen of controversy, only the Artist

And the fact that she completely overshadowed Madonna's performance that year

Er.. no she didn't.

most people didn't care about it at all. it's just a finger. if anything they pointed out how ridiculous american tv is with their stupid rules. outside of the US they only talked about Madonna's amazing performance, which translated into her amazing ticket sales and biggest pre-order of an album of all time! I don't know where that weird idea over "overshadowing" came from. All I saw were articles praising M's performance!

MaRy

she's gonna be broke

Melvin

They're STILL talking about that...