Empire Gets Sued For $500,000
According to TMZ, Executive producers of Fox hit TV show, Empire, may
be going to court as a man named Jon Astor-White is now suing executive
producers, Danny Strong and Lee Daniels, as well as Imagine
Entertainment and 21st Century Fox with the claim that he shopped around
a show called “King Solomon” back in 2007 which bears a lot of
similarities to “Empire”.
Follow the jump to see Jon’s claims and the cast he had originally planned for the show:
Astor-White claims his show would have starred Richard Roundtree, and
was about a record executive and his family and their battle over
control of the company. He believes the creators of the show owe him
$500 million for stealing his idea.
Astor-White also said he faxed the treatment around, and included a
proposed cast list which which included Diahann Carroll, Alicia Keys,
Kanye West, John Goodman, George Hamilton and Angie Dickinson.
Astor-White describes his show as “the style and elegance of
‘Dynasty’ meets ‘The Sopranos’ with a sprinkling of ‘The Godfather’ ,a
similar comparison Marvin Gaye III made in his claim.
The show has previously been sued by a guy with Jackson family connections and by a woman who claims she is the real Cookie.
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