Rock Star's Lawsuit Against Tony Awards Is Moved to New York

DAVE ITZKOFF The New York Times 07/07/2011 17:57

Bret Michaels will probably have a return engagement with the Tony Awards in New York – not to perform or present any trophies, but to pursue a lawsuit against the organizers of that show and CBS, which broadcast the program and the accident in which, Mr. Michaels said, he was nearly killed.

In a ruling issued Tuesday by Judge Dolly M. Gee of United States District Court in Los Angeles, the judge said that Mr. Michaels’s case should be heard in New York, where the accident occurred, The Associated Press reported.

Mr. Michaels, the rock singer and frontman of the band Poison, was performing in the opening number of the 2009 Tonys show when he was hit on the head by a descending backdrop as he was exiting the stage. At that time representatives for Mr. Michaels said he had sustained only relatively minor injuries, fracturing his nose and receiving three stitches in his lip, but remained at Radio City Music Hall to watch the rest of the show.

But in his lawsuit Mr. Michaels said the accident had led to a hemorrhage he had near his brain, for which he was treated in early 2010 and which required him to cancel several concerts (though it did not prevent him from winning “Celebrity Apprentice”).

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