The fate of T.I. and Tiny’s $25 million intellectual property war with toymaker MGA Entertainment was left in the hands of a jury on Friday.
with toymaker MGA Entertainment was left in the hands of an eight-member jury on Friday after closing arguments involving allegations of “demeaning” insults and “deep fakes.”
Over the last three weeks, jurors heard testimony that T.I. and Tiny co-founded the OMG Girlz in 2009 with Tiny’s daughter Zonnique “Star” Pullins as a core member and then built the group into a popular act that toured the country, signed a recording deal with Interscope Records, and received a handwritten note from Beyoncé complimenting the trio’s 2013 single “Baddie.” T.I.
The bitter legal battle playing out in a federal courtroom in Santa Ana, California, started back in December 2020 when lawyers for T.I., born Clifford Harris, and his wife sent a cease-and-desist letter to MGA. Two weeks later, MGA filed a preemptive lawsuit seeking a judge’s determination that it did nothing wrong. The Harrises then counter-sued for trade dress infringement and misappropriation of likeness.
Keville argued that a bigger issue was the way his clients have been treated. He blasted MGA’s billionaire founder Isaac Larian for testifying that the OMG Girlz’s career went “nowhere” and that the infringement lawsuit amounted to “extortion.”
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