A jury has ruled against Dr. Dre and his Beats Electronics co-founder Jimmy Iovine in a lawsuit, the Associated Press reports. As a result, Dre and Iovine owe their former business partner Steven Lamar $25,247,350, according to The Blast. Lamar sued Dre and Iovine in 2014, seeking over $100 million in royalties. A judge had dismissed the case, which was revived by an appeals court in 2016, and went to trial earlier this month.
In his lawsuit, Steven Lamar claimed that he went to Dre in 2006 “with the idea for celebrity-endorsed headphones.” Dre and Iovine “argued that Lamar was only entitled to royalties from the first headphone model,” according to The Hollywood Reporter. Ultimately, the jury ruled that he was owed royalties on three models—the Studio 2 Remastered, the Studio 2 Wireless, and the Studio 3—resulting in the $25.2 million payment.
