The lawsuit comes days after Ador terminated Danielle\u2019s contract as other members of the girl group returned following a prolonged dispute<\/p>\n
\n\tThe K-pop label Ador has filed a lawsuit against ousted NewJeans member Danielle<\/a>, seeking approximately $30 million (43.1 billion Korean won) in damages. The lawsuit also lists a member of Danielle\u2019s family and Ador\u2019s former CEO Min Hee-jin as defendants, the BBC<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n \n\tThe new suit comes days after Ador and its parent company, HYBE<\/a>, revealed that they had ended their contract with Danielle amid wider talks with NewJeans<\/a>\u00a0members\u00a0<\/a>to return<\/a> and end a protracted dispute. In that statement, Ador signaled their intention to take legal action, saying they believed Danielle\u2019s family member and Min Hee-jin \u201cbear significant responsibility for causing this dispute and for the delays in NewJeans\u2019 departure and return.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tHYBE and Ador did not immediately return Rolling Stone\u2019s request for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tIn November, all five members of NewJeans \u2014 Hyein, Haerin, Hanni, Danielle, and Minji \u2014 signaled their intention to return to Ador after their efforts to cut ties with their label failed in South Korean court. That same month, Ador announced that Hyein and Haerin would rejoin the group. In the statement announcing the decision to terminate Danielle\u2019s contract earlier this week, the label said Hanni had also \u201cdecided to stay with Ador,\u201d and that Minji remains \u201cin ongoing conversations\u201d with the label.\u00a0<\/p>\n \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n \n\tThe dispute between NewJeans and Ador dates back to fall 2024, when the band announced their decision<\/a> to cut ties with the label. The move came after HYBE fired Min Hee-jin \u2014 who was instrumental in developing NewJeans \u2014 after accusing her of trying to take Ador independent (which Hee-jin denied). At a press conference, the members of NewJeans also accused Ador of \u201cmanipulation,\u201d \u201cmistreatment,\u201d \u201cdeliberate miscommunications,\u201d and workplace harassment. (ADOR denied the claims.)<\/p>\n \n\tThe members of NewJeans attempted to rebrand and relaunch as NJZ<\/a>, but HYBE\/Ador quickly took the group to court. In March, right before their first show, a court put a stop to the NJZ rebrand<\/a>, while a subsequent June ruling<\/a> held that the K-pop group must honor their contractual obligations through 2029. The members of NewJeans had originally seemed intent on appealing<\/a> the decision before ultimately deciding to open up talks of a return with Ador.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The lawsuit comes days after Ador terminated Danielle\u2019s contract as other members of the girl group returned following…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,65110,157,111,42429,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-210471","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-hybe","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newjeans","13":"tag-newzealand","14":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}