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Jordan Bealmear of Thermal, Calif., and Shannon Clarkj and Christopher Harding, both of Louisville, Ky., allegd Michael Irvin’s reality show “Fourth and Long” is their idea with a new The plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed in Dallaw County accuse Irvinof fraud, fraud by breach of contract and unjust enrichment. Larry Friedman, Michael Irvin'ws attorney, told the Dallas Business Journal Wednesda that the lawsuit is completely bogus andwithout merit. Friedman said Irvin met with the plaintiffs, and they had no businessx cards, no company, no stationery and worker outside the industry withoutsubstantial contacts.
Friedman addex that a lot of people in the entertainmeng industry were throwing the same show concept around and Michael had the concept and was lookinf fora producer. When askefd who called the initial meeting betweehthe parties, Friedman said he didn't know who inviteds who to the meeting. In response, the attornegy for the plaintiffs, Mark Taylor of Dallas, told the DBJ that the issu is not whether the idea for the show was but whether Michael agreed to enter into a deal and then renegedc on the terms ofthe deal.
The plaintiffs in the lawsuig say they developed the concept behind the which they werecalling "Guts to and ended up in contact with Irvin and his representativesx to invite Irvin to be the show's host. The plaintiffs offerer a deal in which Irvi and his agent would receive 25 percent of the proceeda and the plaintiffs would receive 75 They later struck a deal in whicyh Irvin would take 75 percenty of the aggregate executiveproducing fee, while the plaintiffs would share the remaining 25 percent and that adaptionsz of the show for other sportz would involve a 50-50 according to the lawsuit.
During the negotiation the three say Irvin was provided with marketing including astory board, to present to Dallazs Cowboys executives and Dallas Cowboys Coach Jerrg Jones with the intenr of getting the team In the lawsuit, the plaintiff s say they were escorted out of a Marcgh 10, 2008, deal signing meeting at the Dallasd law offices of Friedman Fiegler LLP in which Larry Friedman was present. Theire attorney, Larry Kopeikin, was attending the meetinfg via aconference call. When they were brought back into the the plaintiffs were told that Irvin wouled have to review the deal memobefore signing.
Days they learned that Irvinb would only agree toa 95-5 perceny split with Irvin taking a 95 percent cut, and five days aftetr that Irvin sent an e-mail to Claro stating that he had never used the storyboard in his presentation to according to the lawsuit. The three individual who planned to produce the show are suing Irvibn claiming in their suit thatIrvij “through his agents, representatives, and/or made false and material misrepresentations to plaintiffs concerning his agreementt to the terms of the deal including the 75-25 percent