{"id":2098315,"date":"2026-08-18T00:16:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T21:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2098315"},"modified":"2026-08-18T00:16:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T21:16:33","slug":"ellie-goulding-sues-former-managers-over-live-nation-conflict-of-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2098315","title":{"rendered":"Ellie Goulding Sues Former Managers Over Live Nation Conflict of Interest"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tEllie Goulding claims in a new lawsuit that her former managers, Ben Mawson<\/strong> and Ed Millet<\/strong> of TaP Management, never told her about Live Nation\u2019s controlling stake in their firm.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe \u201cLights\u201d singer initiated legal claims for breach of fiduciary duty in the U.K. on July 24, according to court records reviewed by Billboard<\/em>. She\u2019s suing both Mawson and Millet, who co-founded TaP in 2010, as well as the management firm\u2019s parent company, HNOE Limited.<\/p>\n

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    \n\tGoulding signed to TaP in 2018 and remained there through 2025. According to Variety <\/em>and Rolling Stone<\/em>, which both obtained copies of the singer\u2019s lawsuit, Goulding is alleging that Mawson and Millet pushed her during this period to do business with Live Nation for touring, merch and a documentary film.<\/p>\n

    \n\tThe problem, Goulding reportedly alleges, is that nobody ever disclosed to her that Live Nation had purchased a controlling stake in HNOE in 2015 \u2014 or that Live Nation then bought out the rest of the company in 2019.\u00a0 Unbeknownst to Goulding at the time, the ownership arrangement allegedly subjected Mawson and Millet to contractual obligations that barred them from steering artists under their management away from doing deals with Live Nation.<\/p>\n

    \n\tAccording to Goulding, this meant that Mawson and Millet did not prioritize finding the best deals for her as a client. <\/p>\n

    \n\t\u201cThe defendants had a personal interest or duty in dealings between Ms. Goulding and companies in the Live Nation group, which was in actual or potential conflict with the interests of Ms. Goulding in securing the best commercial terms with whichever promoter, merchandiser or other counterparty it was most advantageous for her to deal with,\u201d reads the lawsuit, per Variety<\/em>.<\/p>\n

    \n\tGoulding is seeking unspecified financial damages in the lawsuit. Reps for Goulding and TaP did not immediately return requests for comment on Monday (Aug. 17).<\/p>\n

    \n\tLive Nation, which is neither named as a defendant nor accused of any wrongdoing, declined to comment on the case.<\/p>\n

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/P103B7AH-e1787011238716.jpg?w=1024″] Trending on Billboard Ellie Goulding claims in a new lawsuit that her former managers, Ben Mawson and Ed Millet of TaP Management, never told her about Live Nation\u2019s controlling stake in their firm. The \u201cLights\u201d singer initiated legal claims for breach of fiduciary duty in the U.K. on July 24, according to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,226],"class_list":["post-2098315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-billboard-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2098315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2098315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2098315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2098315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}