{"id":2448276,"date":"2019-09-03T09:37:54","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T15:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=879292"},"modified":"2019-09-03T09:37:54","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T15:37:54","slug":"ariana-grande-sues-forever-21-for-10-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/ariana-grande-sues-forever-21-for-10-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Ariana Grande Sues Forever 21 for $10 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"
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She didn\u2019t want it; they didn\u2019t get it. Ariana Grande<\/a> is suing clothing retailer Forever 21 for allegedly using her name and likeness without permission to sell new merchandise. The singer is asking for $10 million for the supposed misappropriation, according to Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In paperwork filed in Los Angeles federal court on Monday, the singer claimed the business and the Riley Rose cosmetics company, which was founded by the daughters of Forever 21\u2019s founders, allegedly used at least 30 unauthorized, Grande-related pictures and videos in its marketing campaign. The offending works supposedly feature the singer\u2019s name, music, and likeness in a way that could lead her fans to believe she supported the products. The company, she claimed, used a model who looked \u201cstrikingly similar\u201d to her and used music and lyrics from her hit Thank U, Next<\/em> single \u201c7 Rings.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the lawsuit, Grande claimed the misappropriation came after she and Forever 21 failed to agree on a joint marketing campaign. Forever 21, she said, did not want to pay her enough.<\/p>\n

Neither reps for Grande nor Forever 21 immediately responded to Rolling Stone\u2019s<\/em> request for comment.<\/p>\n

Forever 21 is no stranger to controversy when it comes to alleged trademark infringement. In 2011, it faced scrutiny for selling a T-shirt<\/a> that resembled Kurt Cobain\u2019s hand-drawn shirt that repped the punk band Flipper. The company temporarily removed it from its website but then relisted it<\/a>. \u201cOur legal department has reviewed the vendor\u2019s licensing information and concluded that that Forever 21 has the permission to sell this shirt,\u201d a rep for the company said at the time.<\/p>\n

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She didn\u2019t want it; they didn\u2019t get it. Ariana Grande is suing clothing retailer Forever 21 for allegedly using her name and likeness without permission to sell new merchandise. The singer is asking for $10 million for the supposed misappropriation, according to Reuters. In paperwork filed in Los Angeles federal court on Monday, the singer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2448276","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 04:43:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2448276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}