Yesterday,
rapper Pitbull won the keys to the City of Miami for his work "traveling the country and the world sharing a positive message of Miami,"
according to one city commissioner.
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But
for all of Mr. 305's postive-image-spreadin' "world-traveling," it's a
trip he's accused of not making that's landed him in hot water.
An
Australian promoter slapped Pitbull -- real name: Armando Christian
Perez -- with a lawsuit this month, claiming that he skipped out on
three shows scheduled Down Under in late 2008 and pocketed the advance.
Jaime Fernandez, a Sydney-based promoter
who goes by the name DJ Suave,
says he booked Pitbull for three Aussie shows last December, in Perth
on Dec. 5, Melbourne on the 6th and Sydney on the 7th. Pitbull never
showed, he says.
"We did everything we could to make him happy,
sometimes even going that extra mile in order to meet his demands,"
Fernandez tells
New Times in an email interview. "But yet he
still refused to get on the plane. Not only that, he also failed to
notify that he wasn't coming and also kept half the money for doing
nothing at all."
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