UPDATE — 7/16/25 at 6:55 p.m. ET: Jane's Dependancy frontman Perry Farrell is taking authorized motion of his personal after Dave Navarro initially sued him following their September 2024 onstage battle.
Based on court docket paperwork obtained by Us Weekly, Farrell is countersuing Navarro for assault, battery, intentional infliction of emotional misery, negligent infliction of emotional misery and breach of contract.
“As a founding member and inventive drive behind Jane's Dependancy, Perry Farrell has all the time prioritized the band's legacy and its supporters, which is why the occasions of September thirteenth, 2024 in Boston and the ensuing fallout was so devastating,” Farrell's lawyer stated in a press release to Us. “With out warning or session and utilizing Perry as a scapegoat, Dave Navarro and the opposite band members took it upon themselves to abruptly cancel the remaining tour dates—violating contracts and disregarding all skilled obligations.”
The assertion continued: “Perry was blindsided by not being allowed to vote and be heard, leaving him unable to plead his case to proceed the tour for his or her followers. If that was not dangerous sufficient, Dave Navarro then deliberately and publicly blamed Perry for the canceled tour dates successfully destroying Perry's status and inflicting him irreparable hurt. Regardless of this continued bullying perpetuated by Navarro, Perry's dedication to Jane's Dependancy and the preservation of its constructive impression on the music business stays unshaken. He's actively exploring methods to handle the state of affairs and guarantee accountability.”
Us has reached out to Navarro for remark.
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Dave Navarro filed a lawsuit in opposition to his Jane's Dependancy bandmate Perry Farrell after the pair have been concerned in an onstage battle final 12 months.
Navarro, 58, and fellow Jane's Dependancy members Eric Avery and Stephen Perkins accused Farrell, 66, of assault and battery in court docket paperwork filed in Los Angeles on Wednesday, July 16. (TMZ was the primary to report the information.)
The band's reunion tour got here to an abrupt finish final 12 months after Farrell shoved Navarro mid-performance throughout a September live performance in Boston. Per social media footage, Navarro initially tried to push him again, however Farrell then appeared to elbow the guitarist. A number of safety officers swarmed the stage and have been heard attempting to get Farrell to cease earlier than he was escorted backstage.
Within the lawsuit, Navarro and his bandmates declare that Farrell “continued his unhinged barrage of punches backstage” after the live performance ended. “The Assault, which was virally seen by tens of millions of individuals worldwide, was brutal and unprovoked,” the submitting continues. “It shortly pressured the termination of the present and finally your complete Tour.”
Based on the opposite Jane's Dependancy members, Farrell pushed them to reunite for the tour — their first with all 4 authentic members since 2010 — however then “struggled night time to nighttime amid public concern for his well-being and obvious intoxication.”
“Perry forgot lyrics, misplaced his place in songs he had sung for the reason that Nineteen Eighties and mumbled rants as he drank from a wine bottle onstage,” the swimsuit alleges. “Everybody's performances have been lauded, besides Perry's which have been broadly panned within the music press.”
Navarro, Avery and Perkins — who additionally accused Farrell of intentional infliction of emotional misery, negligence, breach of fiduciary obligation and breach of contract — are requesting a trial by jury and a minimal of $10 million in damages.
After the battle final 12 months, Farrell publicly apologized to his bandmates and followers, telling Selection in a press release, “This weekend has been extremely tough and after having the time and house to replicate, it is just proper that I apologize to my bandmates, particularly Dave Navarro, followers, household and pals for my actions throughout Friday's present. Sadly, my breaking level resulted in inexcusable habits, and I take full accountability for the way I selected to deal with the state of affairs.”
His spouse, Etty Lau, claimed that her husband had made appointments with a neurologist and an otolaryngologist after the incident.
UPDATE — 9/16/24, 11:31 a.m. ET: Someday after canceling a live performance, Jane's Dependancy introduced that they're taking a hiatus. “To all of the followers, The band have made the tough resolution to take a while away as a bunch,” learn a Monday, September 16, assertion shared by way of the band's social media accounts. “As such, […]
“We're taking a little bit of time to ourselves, to replicate and to heal,” Lau, 50, wrote in a September 2024 Instagram assertion. “Make no mistake, when he's prepared he'll take one other big leap over obstacles to make us snicker, assume, whereas altering the world collectively. We are able to rejoice collectively then. And you'll know, we might not have been in a position to do it with out you.”
Within the lawsuit, Navarro and his bandmates allege that Farrell and Lau “falsely and publicly blamed Plaintiffs and the acoustics onstage in an effort to justify Defendant's onstage assault and divert consideration from and trivialize Defendant's well-documented meltdown.”
Farrell known as the lawsuit “baseless” in a press release shared by his attorneys.
“That is one more clear instance of the group uniting to isolate and bully frontman Perry Farrell,” his attorneys informed Us Weekly on Wednesday. “The timing of this baseless lawsuit is not any coincidence — it was filed solely after they caught wind of authorized motion coming from our aspect. It's a clear try to regulate the narrative and current themselves because the so-called ‘good guys' — a transfer that's each typical and predictable. Identical to after they launched a defamatory and completely unfounded assertion about Perry's psychological well being and unilaterally canceled the remaining tour dates with out his enter, they're as soon as once more scrambling to get forward of the reality in a determined effort to save lots of face.”
