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The Kennedy Center, still embroiled in a legal battle to add back President Donald Trump’s name, was ordered by a judge Tuesday to pay more than $250,000 to a jazz musician it sued for backing out of a planned concert in protest of the addition of Trump’s name to the center’s branding.
Tarps have covered the Kennedy Center’s facade for nearly two months. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
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The Kennedy Center owes $252,479.70 in attorney’s fees to Chuck Redd, a jazz musician who canceled a Christmas Eve performance after the Kennedy Center board voted to add Trump’s name to the building, D.C. Superior Court judge Tanya M. Jones Bosier ruled Tuesday.
Bosier previously dismissed the Kennedy Center’s lawsuit against the musician, which accused Redd of breach of contract, in June, saying the arts center failed to prove Redd had signed a contract to perform.
Redd was scheduled to host the center’s annual “Jazz Jam” event, but later became one of a series of artists to cancel Kennedy Center gigs in protest.
The Kennedy Center’s then-president, Richard Grenell, vowed to sue Redd for $1 million in damages, calling his decision to pull out of the gig a “political stunt.”
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