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Nicole Scherzinger and her former girl group, the Pussycat Dolls, have hit a roadblock in wrapping up their years-long legal battle, Page Six has exclusively learned.
Four months after reaching a settlement, Scherzinger and the troupe’s founder, Robin Antin, asked a Los Angeles court to delay dismissing the case due to “a recent unexpected change in circumstances.”
While the pair did not share more information about the sudden “change,” they do not appear to be reversing course on the agreement they reached last year.
Instead, Scherzinger’s attorney, Stephen D. Rothschild, and Antin’s lawyer, David S. Blau, stated in court documents filed on March 6 and obtained by Page Six that they simply “require additional time to complete their settlement, which involves complex business and financial matters, some of which are new as a result of the changed circumstances, and which may require the participation of third parties.”
Rothschild and Blau assured the court that their clients “will continue to work diligently to complete the settlement of this matter as soon as possible but require and respectfully request further time to do so.”
During a subsequent hearing, Judge Mark H. Epstein agreed to move the case’s dismissal from March 13 to May 28.
Blau had no additional comment when reached by Page Six, and Rothschild did not immediately respond.
Page Six broke the news in November 2024 that Scherzinger, 46, and Antin, 63, had tentatively settled their lengthy dispute over the Pussycat Dolls’ canceled reunion tour.
Antin sued Scherzinger in September 2021 for allegedly refusing to participate in the group’s first concerts in a decade unless the “Sunset Boulevard” star was given creative control and 75 percent of profits.
Scherzinger, who called the lawsuit “meritless,” filed a cross-complaint against Antin in August 2022 for mismanagement, which the famed choreographer also denied.
Antin founded the Pussycat Dolls as a burlesque group in 1995 before transforming them into Grammy-nominated pop stars in the 2000s with hit songs including “Don’t Cha,” “Buttons” and “When I Grow Up.”
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