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We haven’t seen the Pussycat Dolls perform together since they disbanded in 2009.

That was when Nicole Scherzinger went solo, leaving behind bandmates Ashley Roberts, Jessica Sutta, Kimberly Wyatt, Carmit Bachar, and Melody Thornton.

Fans have been holding onto hope that the ‘Stikwitu’ group would join forces once more for a reunion tour that was announced last year.

But besides the COVID-19 pandemic putting a serious spanner in the works for the proposed start date of May this year, Scherzinger is now also in a bit of legal battle with the group’s founder, Robin Antin.

Antin has taken legal action against Scherzinger with claims that she is refusing to participate in the group’s reunion tour, per PEOPLE:

In a copy of Antin’s complaint obtained by PEOPLE last week, the choreographer says that Scherzinger is demanding that they renegotiate a 2019 agreement about the group’s latest business venture, Pussycat Dolls Worldwide, and reunion tour.

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Antin [with Scherzinger above back in 2008] claims that Scherzinger is demanding she receive 75 percent of PCD Worldwide (they initially agreed she would get 49 percent, according to the documents) in addition to “complete creative control” and “final decision-making authority.”

According to Antin, Scherzinger is allegedly threatening not to participate in the tour unless those demands are met.

Scherzinger is firing back through her lawyer, Howard King, calling Antin’s claims “ludicrous and false”.

King added that they are a “desperate attempt to divert blame for her own failures by trying to impose obligations on Nicole that simply do not exist”.

Antin founded the girl group in 1995 as a burlesque troop.

Per NewsAU, the company hired to handle the tour, LiveNation, is also mentioned in the lawsuit in relation to an amount of $600 000 that Antin shelled out to fund the original string of tour dates.

King states that his client is not responsible for that money:

“Robin will fail in her efforts to trade on Nicole’s hard-earned success to pull herself out of a deep financial hole she has created by her own poor business and professional decisions,” King said.

“Prior to Nicole’s involvement, trading on Nicole’s name without her consent, Robin borrowed (and spent) $600 000 from LiveNation that she won’t or can’t repay,” King claimed.

“Nicole has invested her own funds in excess of $150 000 in support of a potential PCD reunion that has now been made impossible by Robin’s actions (including the public release of the group members’ confidential financial information).”

He added that Scherzinger does hope to perform again with the Pussycat Dolls one day, but “sadly, this will not happen under these circumstances”.

So, ‘Whatcha Think About That’?

[sources:newsau&people]