John Schnattner, former founding father of Papa John's.Steven Ferdman | Getty Pictures Leisure | Getty PicturesPapa John's founder John Schnatter h
John Schnattner, former founding father of Papa John’s.
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Papa John’s founder John Schnatter has filed a lawsuit towards an promoting agency and its father or mother firm associated to the occasions that led to him being ousted as chairman.
In July 2018, Schnatter stepped down after Forbes reported that he used a racial slur on a Could convention name with Laundry Service, an promoting company that Papa John’s was working with on the time. After leaving Papa John’s, Schnatter filed a number of lawsuits towards the pizza chain earlier than settling. Since then, he has been promoting off his stake within the firm.
The lawsuit filed Thursday alleges that Laundry Service recorded the Could convention name with Schnatter with out his information. A dispute allegedly arose with the advert agency in June 2018 over whether or not Papa John’s owed Laundry Service cost for work as the corporate’s media purchaser. The lawsuit claims that Casey Wasserman, CEO of Laundry Service’s father or mother firm Wasserman Media, then informed Papa John’s then-CEO Steve Ritchie that he would “bury the founder” if the advert company was not paid $6 million.
The lawsuit claims that Laundry Service leaked excerpts of the convention name to Forbes, breaching the promoting agency’s nondisclosure settlement with Papa John’s.
“The info will present that my phrases have been taken out of context and…