In the wake of a finalized settlement announced in September, a judge has dismissed settlement cross litigation between Pussycat Dolls frontwoman Nicole Scherzinger and the group’s creator regarding the 2022 cancellation of a proposed group reunion tour.
Robin Antin, the choreographer who started the Pussycat Dolls, sued Scherzinger in Santa Monica Superior Court in September 2021, alleging the singer wrongfully refused to participate in the group’s planned reunion tour unless she was granted full creative control and a larger share in the group’s business venture. The tour was canceled in early 2022.
Scherzinger, now 47, countersued Antin in August 2022, stating that Antin breached her duties and obligations to Scherzinger, severely damaged (the Pussycat Dolls’) goodwill and wasted the funding for the planned PCD reunion tour, ruining PCD’s ability to do business through self-dealing, waste and fraud.”
On Wednesday, Judge Mark H. Epstein dismissed the litigation at the request of Scherzinger’s attorneys. In September, the attorneys filed joint papers with the judge notifying him that the accord was complete.
In late July, the lawyers told the judge that they settlement was not yet complete and that the settlement “in principle” announced in November 2024 still needed more work.
In her suit, Antin called Scherzinger’s ultimatums a form of “extortion’ that were “materially different” than those the parties had agreed upon under a February 2019 contract.
But Scherzinger’s countersuit alleged that Antin paid another entertainer, Pia Mia, more than $100,000 to be PCD’s lead singer and also bought Mia an expensive gift. Mia did not last and provided no benefit to the reunion tour project, Scherzinger contended.
Although the Pussycat Dolls had just two albums, they sold more than 55 million records worldwide, making them one of the world’s best-selling female groups of all time.