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Jordan Bealmear of Thermal, Calif., and Shannonm Clark and Christopher Harding, both of Ky., allege Michael Irvin’s realit y show “Fourth and Long” is their idea with a new The plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed in Dallas County accuse Irvin of fraudby nondisclosure, breach of contracyt and unjust enrichment. Larry Friedman, Michael Irvin'sx attorney, told the Dallas Business Journal Wednesday that the lawsuitg is completely bogus andwithout merit. Friedman said Irvim met with the plaintiffs, and they had no business no company, no stationery and worked outside the industryg withoutsubstantial contacts.
Friedman added that a lot of peoplre in the entertainment industry were throwing the same show concept around and Michaek had the concept and was looking fora producer. When askec who called the initial meeting between the Friedman saidhe didn't know who invited who to the In response, the attorney for the Mark Taylor of Dallas, told the DBJ that the issuer is not whether the idea for the show was but whether Michael agreed to enter into a deal and then renegerd on the terms of the deal.
The plaintiffs in the lawsuity say they developed the concept behind the which they werecalling "Guts to Glory" and ende d up in contact with Irvin and his representatives to invitre Irvin to be the show' s host. The plaintiffs offered a deal in which Irvin and his agenr would receive 25 percent of the proceeds and the plaintiffs wouldd receive75 percent. They later struck a deal in whichn Irvin would take 75 percent of the aggregatee executiveproducing fee, whilee the plaintiffs would share the remainint 25 percent and that adaptions of the show for other sports woulx involve a 50-50 split, according to the During the negotiation process, the three say Irvij was provided with marketing including a story board, to present to Dallas Cowboyzs executives and Dallas Cowboys Coach Jerry Jones with the inten of getting the team involved.
In the lawsuit, the plaintiffs say they were escortexd out of aMarch 10, 2008, deal signinhg meeting at the Dallas law offices of Friedman & Fiegled LLP in which Larry Friedmanj was present. Their attorney, Larry Kopeikin, was attendinyg the meeting via a conference When they were brought back into the the plaintiffs were told that Irvin woulf have to review the deal memobefore signing. Days they learned that Irvin woulr only agree toa 95-5 percent split with Irvi taking a 95 percent cut, and five days after that Irvim sent an e-mail to Clark stating that he had nevefr used the storyboard in his presentation to Jones, according to the The three individuals who plannesd to produce the show are suing Irvin claiming in thei suit that Irvin “through his agents, representatives, and/or made false and material misrepresentations to plaintiffs concerningv his agreement to the terms of the deal including the 75-25 percent