Madonna Sued for Starting Concert Two Hours Late

Two fans who saw Madonna perform in New York City are suing her. Claiming that both she and the event planners misled them about the start time of the performance.

Plaintiffs Michael Fellows and Jonathan Hadden accuse the Vogue singer, 65, Live Nation, and Barclays Center of participating in unconscionable and deceptive trade practices in a lawsuit filed Wednesday in the United States District Court of Eastern New York.

Fellows and Hadden claim they went to a gig on the Brooklyn leg of Madonna’s Celebration Tour on December 13 and were disappointed when the singer did not appear on stage until between 10:45 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. They further assert that the Barclays Center performances on December 14 and 16 began more than two hours later than scheduled. They claim that they were also not informed in advance of the concert’s later start time.

The two men who are both New York residents claim that the concert ended later than one in the morning due to the supposed two-hour delay, which left them with limited public transportation, limited ride-sharing, and increased public and private transportation costs.

Fellows and Henderson further assert that because the event took place on a weekday. The supposed delay meant that they had to get up early to go to work and take care of their family responsibilities the next day on less sleep.

Both of the fans claim that the singer has a long history of arriving and starting her concerts late sometimes several hours late and that this problem has been present on all of her past tours including as the 2019–2020 Madame X Tour and the 2016 Rebel Heart Tour 2019. The couple believe Madonna is supporting a exercise in false advertising and negligent misrepresentation by virtue of her purported tardiness.

They are requesting a jury trial in addition to damages, statutory damages, treble damages, exemplary damages, costs and attorneys’ fees.

The complaint was filed months after Madonna declared the Celebration Tour would return in October after it had been postponed because of a medical stay in the summer.