Contact Music reported that reality star Chris March from Project Runway TV show, is suing Beyonce Knowles. The story was originally picked up from CocoPerez but it is NOT true.
Reported by Contact Music:
BEYONCE is facing legal action from a former PROJECT RUNWAY contestant who helped design the singer’s costumes for her I AM… tour.
Chris March, the third runner-up in the fourth series of the hit reality TV series, is suing the singer and designer Thierry Mugler, the tour’s creative adviser, after they allegedly failed to pay him for the extravagant stage outfits he helped make as head of costumes for the global trek, reports CocoPerez.com.
March is seeking the $43,500 (£29,000) he claims he was promised.
According to GossipCop:
First off: Chris March is NOT suing Beyonce, and never planned to. He’s only suing Mugler for $43,500, which is the amount he says he’s still owed for designing and fitting the costumes used by Beyonce on her I AM… tour.
So why would Contact Music and other outlets report that he’s suing Beyonce?
Simply because they picked up that story from Perez Hilton’s new site CocoPerez, which launched only two weeks ago, and is already designed for factual disaster. On Hilton’s new site, he wrote a piece that was unambiguously titled, “Beyonce Sued By Project Runway Designer.” (Once again, as her rep reiterated to Gossip Cop, “Beyonce is NOT being sued.”)
To be fair, some time after Hilton posted his inaccurate report, he later made a correction – that is, after March’s attorney fired a note to him that read, “Chris March’s lawsuit is not against Beyonce, but rather against Thierry Mugler.” Oh.
The problem, however, is after Hilton’s factual faux pas, a slew of other sites ran with it, and never saw the amended attorney statement.