TVT Records Tastes Its Own Medicine – Ordered To Pay $9.1 Million

Posted on Mar 19, 2007

Ah, Sweet Irony… After a grueling 11-day trial, a federal jury ruled that TVT Records did whatever it could to block Slip-N-Slide Records from releasing music by Miami based artist Pitbull, a TVT recording artist. TVT has been ordered to pay $9.1 million in punitive and compensatory damages. The irony is that TVT alledged that Island/Def Jam and Lyor Cohen did the exact same thing to TVT with Ja Rule. TVT originally accused...