Nas is planting his foot down firmly by refusing to pay promoter Patrick Allocco one penny of the $10 million lawsuit against him.
As we previously reported, Allocco and his son, also named Patrick, were not allowed to leave Angola for 49 days after Nas failed to show for a 2011 New Year's Eve show.
a local promoter by the name of Henrique "Riquhino" Miguel paid Nas $300,000 in advance for the show. When the rapper didn't appear as planned Miguel prevented the Allocco's from leaving the country.
Allocco and his son hailed a cab to take them to the U.S. Embassy, but instead of taking them there the cab driver drove them to a parking lot where they were surrounded by two dozen gun-toting men. The men turned out to be Miguel's bodyguards. They took the Allocco's to the police who interrogated them in Portuguese--which they do not speak for seven hours.
"When we first arrived at the jail for questioning, they made sure to show me where I would be staying if I couldn’t get the act or the money right away," Allocco told New Jersey.com. "It was a Third World holding cell that smelled of sweat and human body odor."
The U.S. Embassy intervened on behalf of the concert promoter and placed him and his son in a hotel. However their passports were taken away and they weren't allowed to leave until Nas returned the advance.
The "Hate Me Now" rapper eventually repaid the $300K advance allowing the Allocco's to be released.
In December 2012 the promoter sued Nas for $10 million. In the federal lawsuit, Allocco claimed he was beaten and threatened constantly while being held in Angola. He also says that because he was unable to do business during his 49 days out of the U.S., he lost his home and business.
On Monday, April 29, 2013, Nas filed his own court documents asking a judge to throw out Patrick's lawsuit against him according to TMZ.
Nas claims that he and Patrick reached an agreement that if he repaid the advance the promoter wouldn't sue.
Nas says the promoter breached their original contract by failing to provide enough security, fumbling their plane tickets and paying the $300K advance late.
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