Gabe Ginsberg/Getty ImagesJourney‘s Neal Schon and his wife, Michaele, have released full details about a lawsuit they filed recently over an alleged March 2017 incident at a Journey concert, during which the couple claims a security guard hired by promoter Live Nation assaulted Michaele.
According to the suit, some details of which initially were reported by TMZ, during the encore of a Journey concert in in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Michaele was taking videos and photos of the band in an area where she lawfully had access to when she was allegedly “violently assaulted and forcibly thrown into a PA system” by a security guard.
The lawsuit claims that Michaele “suffered severe emotional distress, including mental anguish, mental trauma, humiliation, mortification, fright and indignity.” In addition, the suit alleges that the incident exacerbated a pre-existing health condition — multiple sclerosis — and has caused Michaele a “great deal of pain and suffering as well as medical expense.”
Meanwhile, in statements included in a new press release about the lawsuit, Neal and Michaele claim that a security video from the venue captured the assault — and was viewed by Journey’s head of security — but when the video was procured by the Schons, the supposed assault had been edited out of it.
“When I wrote back I asked where those 20 seconds of footage went, I was told, ‘oh that must’ve been a glitch,'” Neal maintains. “But there’s no other glitch in the whole hour and a half performance…It was obviously edited, as anyone can see.”
The lawsuit, which was brought against Live Nation Worldwide and Live Nation Entertainment, is seeking unspecified compensatory damages and litigation costs.
ABC Radio reached out to Live Nation Entertainment for a comment but did not receive a response by press time.
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