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Kennedy Center Ordered to Pay Musician $250,000 Over Canceled Concert
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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…The Kennedy Center has been ordered to pay more than $250,000 in legal fees to jazz musician Chuck Redd after suing him over his decision to cancel a performance and publicly oppose President Donald Trump’s name being added to the arts institution.
D.C. Superior Court Judge Tanya Jones Bosier ordered the Kennedy Center to pay Redd $252,479.70 in attorneys’ fees and costs, nearly all of the roughly $258,000 he sought.
As TheWrap previously reported, Kennedy Center leadership subsequently threatened Redd with a $1 million lawsuit, with then-president Richard Grenell accusing him of pulling a “political stunt.”
The Kennedy Center objected to Redd’s request for legal fees, calling the amount “nothing short of astonishing” and arguing that it was disproportionate to the complexity of the case.
The Kennedy Center did not immediately respond to TheWrap’s request for comment.