Overview
- Backgrid video published this week shows Smith in London laughing and entering a vehicle when asked about the lawsuit while security curtailed further questions.
- Brian King Joseph, a former America’s Got Talent finalist who performed on Smith’s tour, has sued in Los Angeles Superior Court alleging wrongful termination and retaliation.
- The complaint claims an unknown person unlawfully entered Joseph’s Las Vegas hotel room and left items along with a note reading, “Brian, I’ll be back… just us,” signed “Stone F.” with a heart.
- Joseph says he reported the incident to hotel staff, a non-emergency police line, and tour representatives, then was told he was terminated days later; he seeks unspecified damages and a jury trial against Smith and Treyball Studios Management.
- Smith’s attorney, Allen B. Grodsky, called the allegations “false, baseless, and reckless,” and no court rulings or substantive legal decisions have been reported yet.