Overview
- Fresh Tape Media filed a $1.23 million complaint in New York State Supreme Court on July 21 and won an ex parte emergency order from Judge Brendan Lantry on July 30 to pursue asset relief.
- Sheriffs served subpoenas to New York banks in early August as Fresh Tape seeks to identify and freeze LIV accounts connected to unpaid invoices.
- The lawsuit says Fresh Tape delivered more than 50,000 images and videos from LIV’s January preseason event and that eight invoices dated Jan. 22 to Mar. 22 remain unpaid with values from roughly $74,470 to $231,137 before interest.
- LIV was formally notified of the Fresh Tape complaint the same day it canceled the $40 million season-ending team championship, and the league has not finalized replacement financing after the Saudi PIF said it would end funding.
- The Fresh Tape claim joins other seven-figure vendor suits and larger legal actions, raising the risk of asset restrictions, more event cancellations, and payment shortfalls for small contractors who supplied league services.