Things just got real over in the Minaj camp. Her former hairstylist and maker of all those colorful, crazy, beautiful and scary wigs she used to rock Terrance Davidson has made his grievances with Nicki formal – today, he filed a lawsuit in Atlanta, claiming 30 million dollars in damages. Details after the click.
Terrance and Nicki Minaj stopped working with each other last year after a very public spat, but things hit the fan when Terrance saw that Nicki started selling wigs that looked a lot like what he created for her – on her website.
CNN reports:
Both Davidson and his attorney, Christopher Chestnut, talked to CNN about his influence on crafting Minaj’s image as well as the fact that the rapper now sells wigs on her site based on the designs Davidson says he created. The stylist said he discovered the wigs were being marketed and sold after someone sent him a picture and he began researching.
“I see these wigs online,” said Davidson, who has also worked with others in the industry, including singers Patti LaBelle and rapper Remy Ma. “People are basically duplicating what I created for Nicki Minaj.”
“Nicki Minaj is reaping great success and financial bounty reward for Terrence’s creative expertise, and he is entitled to participate in that,” Chestnut said. “Someone’s got to stand up for the artist. We applaud the fact that she’s making millions, but she’s also got to pay bounty to those whose creative designs she’s making millions off of.”
Looks like Terrance wants a piece of that wig pie too. Think he’ll win the suit?
