Kaskade Wins $8M Lawsuit Against Las Vegas Nightclub KAOS

LAS VEGAS (CelebrityAccess) – A Nevada federal decide has ordered the house owners of Las Vegas’ KAOS nightclub to pay dance and digital artist DJ Kaskade $7,950,000 after they canceled his $300,000 an evening residency.

In accordance with federal courtroom data, KAOS, a subsidiary of Crimson Rock Resorts, has to pay the DJ (authorized identify Ryan Raddon) after the Palms’ night time and day golf equipment had been shut down. The courtroom dominated that FP Holdings, an organization owned by Frank Fertitta III and Lorenzo Fertitta, owed the DJ compensation for unpaid performances. The Fertittas owned the Palms on the time KAOS opened and closed. The resort’s Common Supervisor, Jon Grey, was not named within the swimsuit.

Kaskade’s exhibits had been referred to as off when KAOS abruptly shut down in November 2019. The membership reopened in April 2020 after including a 70-foot-dome over the house. Kaskade had been signed for $300,000 per efficiency. The artist had been booked for 30 exhibits in 2019 and one other 30 in 2020. He was in an unique residency partnership with the membership.

Jordan Siev of Reed Smith LLP mentioned in a press release, “We’re happy that the courtroom present in Kaskade’s favor and upheld the events’ rigorously negotiated settlement.”

Billboard experiences U.S. District Courtroom Choose Andrew Gordon mentioned the DJ “may have carried out a number of exhibits between January and March 15, 2020, earlier than the COVID shutdown order.” KAOS closed the earlier November, and the DJ was nonetheless beneath contract as a headliner with the corporate.

The decide additionally mentioned the Fertittas didn’t provide up every other codecs for Kaskade exhibits, together with drive-in or digital performances, although Kaskade was out there for such preparations. Lastly, the decide wrote that FP Holdings provided no live-performance alternate options and no various venue wherein to carry out.

The DJ’s reps claimed within the swimsuit that FP Holdings requested all of its resident artists to restructure their efficiency agreements, which Kaskade declined. In October 2019, KAOS reps negotiated their method out of DJ Marshmello’s lavish $60 million residency contract. These sorts of beneficiant expenditures compelled the membership to run within the crimson.

A month later, KAOS closed to the general public earlier than the complete resort shut down in March 2020. The resort by no means reopened beneath Station Casinos possession. In 2021, the corporate offered the resort to the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, which intends to reopen the property this spring. There was no formal phrase on the brand new proprietor’s plans for the well-known KAOS enclave.