Dave Navarro Sues Perry Farrell For Assault, Battery After Onstage Fight

Dave Navarro is suing Perry Farrell for assault and battery … and his fellow Jane’s Addiction members are additionally leaping on the lawsuit — demanding tens of millions from the lead singer.

Navarro, Eric Avery and Stephen Perkins filed a lawsuit in opposition to Farrell Wednesday over a struggle that went down onstage in September 2024 … which they are saying derailed their North American tour and deliberate album afterward.

Remember … we obtained video from a present on September 13, 2024, the place Farrell and Navarro received into one another’s faces and started shoving each other.

Navarro claims the preventing continued backstage … including nobody may calm Perry down, and alleging Farrell punched him within the face. Navarro discovered this particularly triggering as a result of he is the sufferer of a violent encounter that occurred throughout his teenage years.

Navarro says the band was pressured to cancel 15 nights and put their album on maintain due to the struggle … resulting in main monetary losses.

Farrel’s spouse Etty stated shortly after the present he was going to fulfill with a neurologist and an otolaryngologist — an ear, nostril and throat physician — for medical consultations.

Navarro says the band was having points even earlier than the onstage dust-up BTW … as a result of he says Farrell threatened to give up the band a number of instances. Navarro additionally claims Farrell talked him into suspending his marriage ceremony in Scotland so as to add extra tour dates.

Navarro is suing Farrell for assault and battery … whereas all three of the bandmembers are suing for emotional misery, negligence, breach of contract and extra. They’re in search of minimal damages of $10 million.