Mötley Crüe being sued by co-founding guitarist Mick Mars over ‘rip off, disease mockery and gaslighting’
Mötley Crüe are being sued by their co-founding guitarist Mick Mars over claims they ripped him off and subjected him to “gaslighting” and mockery amid his painful spinal disease. Mick, 71 – who helped found the group in 1980 alongside Tommy Lee, 60, and Nikki Sixx, 64, before the group later added Vince Neil, 62, as lead singer before they hit the big-time – makes the claims in a lawsuit filed against his fellow rockers in Hollywood, while they are on their farewell tour without him. The suit states: “During much of the band’s recent tenure, Sixx continually ‘gaslighted’ Mars by telling him t...