Conor McGregor is dealing with a lawsuit from a detailed good friend that might quantity to hundreds of thousands of {dollars}.
The Irish unbiased is reporting that Artem Lobov, a retired fighter who was as soon as a coaching companion of McGregor’s, is suing the UFC star over a considerable quantity in unpaid proceeds from the sale of McGregor’s Correct No. 12 Irish whiskey model, the NY Publish stories.
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McGregor, his agent Audie Attar and third companion Ken Austin bought their Irish whiskey firm to Proximo Spirits, the proprietor of Jose Cuervo, amongst different liquors, for $600 million in 2021.
Lobov has mentioned beforehand, in an interview with Talksport, that he was behind the thought for the whiskey model — and that he talked McGregor into doing Irish whiskey as an alternative of a vodka — and put collectively the take care of a whiskey distillery.
“The promoting level of my ebook would be the Correct 12 Whiskey story. A couple of individuals know, however this was truly my thought. I used to be the one that got here up with the thought to do a whiskey for Conor,” Lobov mentioned.
“As soon as the deal was prepared, I went to Conor and I mentioned, ‘Conor, I’ve the deal prepared for you. That is going to be a billion-dollar deal, no messing right here.’ I’m undecided if he took me severely or not on the time with the billion {dollars}. We continued engaged on it and as you’ll be able to see it was an enormous success. I’m actually joyful to see that and I’m actually joyful to be part of it.”
The unbiased stories that Lobov plans to say in court docket that he’s entitled to five per cent of McGregor’s proceeds. Lobov mentioned within the Talksport interview that he was provided $1 million by McGregor, however turned it down.
This text initially appeared on the NY Publish and was reproduced with permission.
