Madonna Sued for “Pornography Without Warning”

Madonna is being sued. Again. 

The queen of pop has a new lawsuit against her from Justen Lipeles, a fan who attended her concert in Inglewood, California. He is alleging that the “Vogue” singer forced concert attendees to “watch topless women on stage simulating sex acts,” and asserts that this should have been disclosed to ticket buyers.

However, this isn’t new to us at all!

Videos of the “Material Girl” singer’s Celebration Tour have been circulating on the internet for a hot minute now. It highlights her unabashed sexual energy and shows her dancers giving lap dances and performing other illicit acts onstage.

However, the plaintiff also echoed claims that surfaced in recent months and they demand a closer look.

In the class action lawsuit, he alleges that the performer and her gig promoter, Live Nation, failed to inform buyers that the singer’s show would not start on schedule. 

He adds that the singer turned off the arena’s air conditioning, causing the audience to sweat profusely. “Forcing consumers to wait hours in hot, uncomfortable arenas and subjecting them to pornography without warning is demonstrative of Madonna’s flippant disrespect for her fans,” he states in the suit. 

Lipeles also claims that when the singer did go on stage, she lip-synced parts of her performance even though the attendees paid for a live show. 

He is suing Madonna and Live Nation for unspecified damages for six crimes, including breach of contract, emotional distress, and unfair competition.

The “Papa Don’t Preach” singer was first sued in January for her concert schedule.

According to the suit, plaintiffs Michael Fellows and John Hadden are seeking legal action against the singer, Live Nation, and the Barclays Center for “false advertising, negligent misrepresentation, and unfair and deceptive trade practices.”

The duo claim that Madonna did not make it to the stage at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, North America, until 10:45, 2 hours after the expected start time. After a late start, they “were confronted with limited public transportation, limited ride-sharing, and/or increased public and private transportation costs at that late hour.”

Together with Live Nation, the 65-year-old “Express Yourself” superstar issued a joint statement stating their intention to “vigorously defend” against the legal action.

“The shows opened in North America at Barclays in Brooklyn as planned, with the exception of a technical issue December 13th during soundcheck. This caused a delay that was well documented in press reports at the time,” the statement reads.

Madonna, who once told disgruntled fans at a Las Vegas show “A queen is never late,” filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit in April. “No reasonable concertgoer—and certainly no Madonna fan—would expect the headline act at a major arena concert to take the stage at the ticketed event time,” her attorneys wrote.

After she tried to get a judge to drop the case, she was hit with another class action lawsuit by three fans who attended her concert in Capital One Arena.

They claim that because Madonna started her set late, they “had to leave the concerts early prior to the concerts’ conclusion, therefore depriving each of them of the benefit of seeing the complete concert.” They’re now seeking actual and consequential damages among other things.