*Tyrese Gibson is dropping his million-dollar lawsuit against Teddy Pendergrass’s widow.
We reported earlier that Gibson sued Joan Pendergrass, whom he accused of refusing to extend the option for the rights to the late singer’s life story. In 2019, it was reported that Gibson would portray the R&B crooner in a biopic by Lee Daniels, Deadline reported.
Warner Bros. acquired the life rights of the late artist, and Joan was set to executive produce the biopic with Little Marivn attached initially to pen the screenplay. Gibson’s Voltron production company was slated to oversee the production. RadarOnline reports that he took legal action against Joan for allegedly attempting to derail the project.
In her complaint, Joan claimed the “Fast and Furious” star is “incapable of getting a movie made.”
“Sadly things had to come to this….Another Philadelphia legend Lee Daniels is attached direct me as Teddy. This has been 13 years+ in the making this man embraced me when he was on this earth and shared to me “No one can play me in my biopic but you Tyrese I’m sure of it”…. -TP,” Gibson said previously in an Instagram post.
Gibson sued Joan because she allegedly cut him out of the biopic after he invested 6-figures into the project.
According to RadarOnline.com, Tyrese’s production company filed a Notice of Voluntary Dismissal on December 26. This means the case was dismissed without prejudice, and he can refile the lawsuit later.
Teddy Pendergrass rose to fame in the early 1970s as the lead singer of Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes before achieving success as a solo artist. A near-fatal car crash in 1982 left Pendergrass paralyzed from the chest down, but that didn’t stop him from continuing to perform for two decades until announcing his retirement in 2007. He also established the Teddy Pendergrass Alliance to help those with spinal cord injuries before he died in 2010.
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