{"id":10831,"date":"2009-11-03T12:42:47","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T17:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=10831"},"modified":"2009-11-03T12:42:47","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T17:42:47","slug":"ex-hellyeah-bassist-settles-lawsuit-with-country-singer-john-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=10831","title":{"rendered":"Ex-HELLYEAH Bassist Settles Lawsuit With Country Singer John Rich?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i3.photobucket.com\/albums\/y55\/RSCODY\/montano-1.jpg\" alt=\"tmd\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i66.photobucket.com\/albums\/h259\/rsid999\/tmdcom.jpg\" alt=\"tmd\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\nOusted HELLYEAH bassist Jerry Montano has apparently settled out of court for a large undisclosed amount of cash after filing suit versus country star JOHN RICH for assaulting him with a beer bottle at a Hollywood hotel last year on Oct 8th.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThis explains how Montano, who recently announced he made a new home purchase in the Los Angeles area recently, came up with a big bag of money, after having found himself literally shut out of the heavy metal music world for making an alleged <a href=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?p=2801\">death threat<\/a> at HELLYEAH\u2019s CD release party back in May\/20007.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i3.photobucket.com\/albums\/y55\/RSCODY\/John_Rich__42482t.jpg\" alt=\"tmd\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\nTMD has received several pics of Montano&#8217;s new <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jerrymontano\">residence<\/a>:<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i3.photobucket.com\/albums\/y55\/RSCODY\/montanohouse4.jpg\" alt=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i3.photobucket.com\/albums\/y55\/RSCODY\/montanohouse3.jpg\" alt=\"2\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i3.photobucket.com\/albums\/y55\/RSCODY\/montanohouse1.jpg\" alt=\"3\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i3.photobucket.com\/albums\/y55\/RSCODY\/montanohouse2.jpg\" alt=\"tmd\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\nIn a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Nov 10th, 2008, Montano claimed that the country singer&#8217;s manager had warned him that Rich often became &#8220;extremely violent when drunk&#8221;. Montano went to the star&#8217;s hotel room and it was then that Rich became &#8220;increasingly violent and belligerent&#8221; over a girl that the fight broke out.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe rocker sued the country crooner for unspecified damages for the &#8220;cuts, scrapes, permanent scarring, swelling, and bruising to his lips, jaw, face, teeth and nose.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/jerrymontano\">http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/jerrymontano<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ousted HELLYEAH bassist Jerry Montano has apparently settled out of court for a large undisclosed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}