Tyler Perry has been sued by a Georgia-based entertainment company forย allegedly working unfairly with government officials while trying to transform a former military base into a movie studio.
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The entertainment mogul has been accused of attemptingย to “thwart the businessย opportunity” ofย Ubiquitous Entertainment Studios in a federal lawsuit, which also names the U.S. Department of Defense as a defendant, filed earlier this week. One of the causes of actions listed against those defendants is “intentional or negligent misrepresentation and fraud.”
The complaint says a UES rep met with a government official in 2011 and first proposed the idea of transforming Fort McPhersonย into a studio and entertainment complex, but then Perry stepped in and persuaded them to agree to his deal to provide similar “studio, sound stage, animation, school and education complexes” in the same 80-acre space.