Members of Jane's Addiction are engaged in legal disputes following an onstage altercation in 2024. Dave Navarro, Eric Avery, and Stephen Perkins have filed lawsuits against Perry Farrell, alleging assault, battery, and emotional distress. Farrell has filed a counter-suit, claiming the others bullied him throughout the tour. Both sides detail a history of animosity among original members dating back to 1986. The lawsuits describe incidents of violence and harassment that reportedly led to the tour's abrupt cancellation.
The lawsuit listing Navarro as the first plaintiff says Farrell was struggling during the tour. He "regularly appeared onstage in an advanced state of intoxication," "ruthlessly assaulted" the guitarist onstage in Boston in September 2024, then continued his "unhinged barrage of punches" backstage, it says.
Farrell, meanwhile, says in his lawsuit that the other members had spent years "bullying" and "trying to undermine" him by turning up the volume on their instruments so loud that he was forced to crank his in-ear monitors to dangerous levels to hear his own voice.
The Attack, which was virally viewed by millions of people worldwide, was brutal and unprovoked. It quickly forced the termination of the show and eventually the entire Tour.
That antagonism is clear in both complaints, which were reviewed by The Times.
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