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Starz hit TV show P-Valley’s is into a new type of drama, courtroom drama. On Wednesday, Nicole Gilbert-Daniels filed a lawsuit against Lionsgate Entertainment and Starz, claiming the show is a “veritable unauthorized 2020 knock-off” of her musical stage play “Soul Kittens Cabaret.”
The play was put on DVD in 2011.
Gilbert-Daniels, who is best known as a ’90s R&B star from the music group Brownstone, has launched Women In Reality Film Media.
During her career, she has become a successful producer for shows like TV One’s R&B Divas and BET Her’s From The Bottom Up.
And now she believes her musical play really inspired Lionsgate’s show. She believes this because her entertainment attorney Leroy Bobbit pitched a TV musical drama that was based on “Soul Kittens Cabaret” to Lionsgate CEO in 2014.
Her lawsuit claims, Feltheimer received two copies of her script and the “SKC” DVD.
The suit claims Lionsgate never responded to them about developing the series. However, P-Valley creator Katori Hall says the show is based on her 2015 play “P*ssy Valley,” which takes place at the Pynk located in Chucalissa, Mississippi, Bossip reported.
It is questionable if she is also accusing Hall, who is also a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, of copying “Soul Kitten Cabaret” for the 2015 play.
Hall, along with executive producer Liz Garcia, and co-producer Patrik-Ian-Polk were all listed as co-defendants who are accused of “knowingly and illegally used the Plaintiff’s work to create the ‘P-Valley’ television series.”
Gilbert-Daniel released an official statement on the lawsuit, in which she emphasizes that this is a continuation of WIRF Media’s mission to empower minority women creators and protect their intellectual property from exploitation. She added a video that included dozens of direct comparisons between P-Valley and “Soul Kittens Cabaret.”
The lawsuit seeks actual damages, statutory damages, and a jury trial.
