Flo Rida failed to appear for a performance in Australia last summer. He was paid $50,000 and ignored a summons by the concert promoter to return the money. This caused a judge to allow the promoter to contact Flo Rida through his Facebook page. The concert promoter posted a public message for the rapper’s millions of fans to see. Hip Hop Wired reports:
Flo Rida has been served with legal papers—via Facebook. The Miami native was paid $50,000 to perform at the Fat As Butter festival in Australia last summer, but failed to appear. The 33-year-old ignored a previous summons, causing the judge to allow him to be contacted on the social networking site.
“We tried to serve him physically on several occasions when he was out here but he got wise to it pretty quickly,” said promoter Brent Lean, who runs Mothership Music, the company behind the deal. We couldn’t get near him in the end because he was constantly surrounded by an entourage and security, so we looked into ways of serving him via Facebook because he’s very active on social media.”
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