$30 Million Lawsuit Won’t Slow Down 30 Seconds To Mars
Jared Leto and the rest of his band-mates from 30 Seconds To Mars are busy working on a follow-up to “A Beautiful Lie,” released in 2005.
The band teamed up with British producer Flood (Nine Inch Nails, Sigur Rós) for the album and Leto said to MTV News that even with a $30 million lawsuit, they are in “good spirits.”
The lawsuit was filed by Virgin Records, the band’s former label, in August. According to MTV News, Virgin Records has filed a lawsuit because 30 Seconds To Mars failed to produce three of the five records the band was obliged to put out under their 1999 contract, which they originally entered with Immortal Records.
Virgin took over the contract in 2004 and the band later claimed they were “excused from such performance from and after July 4, 2008, pursuant to California Labor Code Sec. 2855 (a).”
“It’s our first lawsuit,” Leto said to MTV News. “When you have a $30 million lawsuit against you, it’s part of your life. Some days you feel invincible, and other days you can be obsessed with it. Some days you can get a little pissed.”
Still, the band is hard at work to produce a new album, “Our only concrete goal is to make something amazing,” Leto said to MTV News, “and something that we’re proud of, and something that’s fulfilling and challenges us”.
