Live Nation Employee Boasted Of 'Gouging' Customers In Unsealed Messages
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The live music giant tried to keep the embarrassing messages from public view, arguing they would prejudice the jury in its antitrust trial.
“robbing them blind baby... that’s how we do it.”
That’s what a Live Nation Entertainment employee had to say about concertgoers forking over $50 or more just to park their cars, according to internal company messages unsealed in court Wednesday.
The messages, first reported by Bloomberg, came to light two days after the Trump Justice Department reached a baffling settlement to resolve its antitrust lawsuit against the entertainment colossus just one week into trial in New York.
Live Nation was accused of illegally monopolizing “nearly all live music” in the U.S., in part by threatening to punish venues if they didn’t use its infamous ticketing subsidiary, Ticketmaster, exclusively.
The 2022 Slack messages between Ben Baker and Jeff Weinhold, both regional ticketing directors for the company at the time, certainly won’t dispel the public perception that Live Nation is out to milk concertgoers for all they’re worth. Baker seemed to revel in how much customers were willing to pay in “ancillary” fees for things like parking and VIP access.
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