T.I. and Tameka “Tiny” Harris have received their lawsuit in opposition to MGA Leisure, claiming the corporate violated the mental property rights of their music group, the OMG Girlz, with the corporate’s L.O.L. Shock! O.M.G. dolls.
On Monday, Sept. 23, the Xscape singer, 49, shared her happiness after the years-long courtroom battle ended with a $71 million victory.
“We did this for the town. We did this for the tradition,” Tiny said throughout an Instagram Reside video exterior of a Santa Ana, Calif., federal courthouse.
“It was a battle. It was a hell of a battle,” she continued of the case that began in 2020, and lasted till Monday’s listening to. “We couldn’t be extra pleased.”
The “Understanding” singer additionally thanked the jurors for reaching a unanimous verdict.
“We wished to thank the jurors for simply seeing us by way of this, and simply believing in what we stated. They heard our story they usually knew we wasn’t mendacity. It’s wonderful,” Tiny added.
After the ruling, Tiny spoke to Rolling Stone in regards to the win, plus $53.6 million in punitive damages.
“I imply, wow. They did greater than I believed they might,” she advised the outlet. “I’d have been pleased with no matter. They blessed us greater than past. We wished to thank the jurors so unhealthy, however we didn’t get the chance.”
In accordance with Rolling Stone, the jurors discovered that greater than a dozen L.O.L. Shock! O.M.G. dolls “infringed on the commerce gown and misappropriated the title, picture, and likeness of the all-female band that T.I. and Tiny fashioned in 2009.”
The OMG Girlz include Bahja Rodriguez, Breaunna Womack and Tiny’s eldest daughter, Zonnique Pullins.
Through the years, Tiny has known as out the L.O.L. Shock! O.M.G. dolls for similarities — together with an Instagram post simply final week with side-by-side photographs of the women subsequent to the dolls, with related outfits and hairstyles.
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“Do these dolls look acquainted?” was written over the graphic.
“1 of many however greatest customized outfit in questioned! @omggirlz vs #OMGDolls final wk of courtroom! God keen the reality will prevail!!!” Tiny captioned the add, which additionally confirmed the women performing in outfits much like what the dolls wore.
Pullins, 28, Rodriguez, additionally 28, and Womack, 29, testified on the three-week trial. Throughout proceedings, T.I. and Tiny accused MGA of selling seven dolls that appeared similar to the wardrobe and elegance that OMG Girlz wore at “very particular public occasions” or photographs, per the outlet.
“I’m so grateful and overwhelmed with pleasure,” Womack advised Rolling Stone. Pullins added, “When the decide requested if we had a memorable commerce gown and everybody raised their fingers, I bought so emotional. All of us silently cried.”
T.I., 43, shared an announcement with the outlet through a telephone dialog.
“I feel that was a bully tactic,” the “Reside Your Life” rapper stated of legal professionals for MGA calling the lawsuit a “cash seize.”
“[They were] attempting to color me because the unhealthy man when actually, they have been the [bad] ones. They have been those that got here and ripped us off, and [they] anticipated us to not have the audacity to face up and converse for ourselves,” he continued. “That type of condescension comes from if you’re probably not in contact with the fact of tradition after you’ve gone so lengthy type of having it your approach and no person actually standing up and talking up in opposition to you.”
MGA founder Isaac Larian, who denied the allegations, insisted that the group didn’t affect the dolls and referred to the well-known household and OMG Girlz as “extortionists” through the trial.
PEOPLE reached out to MGA Leisure for remark.