{"id":597202,"date":"2026-08-18T16:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T16:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/597202\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T16:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T16:32:09","slug":"ellie-goulding-sues-former-managers-for-hiding-live-nation-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/597202\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellie Goulding Sues Former Managers for Hiding Live Nation Ties"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ellie Goulding<\/a> is suing her former managers for securing her deals with Live Nation while concealing their business relationship with the ticketing giant, Variety<\/a> reports. Goulding claims Benedict Mawson and Edward Millett of TaP Management failed to disclose that Live Nation had held a controlling stake in TaP Management\u2019s parent company, HNOE (which is also a defendant), since 2015, and purchased the entire company in 2019.<\/p>\n

After the full acquisition, Mawson became HNOE\u2019s CEO, and he and Millett reported directly to \u201can individual designated by Live Nation\u2019s chief executive officer,\u201d according to the lawsuit. The two allegedly took a 20 percent commission while Goulding signed various contracts with Live Nation, including for concert promotion, merchandise, and a documentary film.<\/p>\n

Mawson and Millett, who founded TaP Management in London in 2010, managed Goulding from 2018 through 2025. Goulding alleges that, during that time, she had no knowledge that her managers were contractually forbidden to encourage their artists \u201cto cease to do business with\u201d or \u201creduce the extent of\u201d their business \u201cwith any company in the Live Nation group.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Live Nation staff, the complaint continues, Mawson and Millet \u201chad a personal interest or duty in dealings between Ms. Goulding and companies in the Live Nation group which was in actual or potential conflict with the interests of Ms. Goulding in securing the best commercial terms with whichever promoter, merchandiser or other counterparty it was most advantageous for her to deal with.\u201d She seeks \u201cequitable compensation and\/or damages for their breaches of fiduciary duty.\u201d<\/p>\n

On September 4, Goulding is releasing her sixth album, I Know Too Much via Polydor<\/a>. Pitchfork has emailed her representatives and TaP Management for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ellie Goulding is suing her former managers for securing her deals with Live Nation while concealing their business…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60,2900],"class_list":["post-597202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-legal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}