From ending lawsuits to ending relationships, it’s been another busy week for the stars/former stars of the Teen Mom franchise! In an effort to bring you up-to-date on the latest Teen Mom Family Reunion, Teen Mom OG and Teen Mom 2 news, The Ashley brings you the Teen Mom News Pile.
Here are some of the major (and minor but interesting) ‘Teen Mom’-related things that happened over the last week or so…
$4 Million Lawsuit Against Chelsea Houska & Cole DeBoer Dismissed
Chelsea and her husband Cole are most-likely breathing a big sigh of relief this week, due to the fact that the $4 million lawsuit they’ve been fighting in court for four years was dismissed.
As The Ashley previously told you, Chelsea and Cole were sued by their former consulting company “Envy” in 2020 for allegedly withholding money made from social media promotions. The Down Home Fab couple went on to countersue Envy a month later, denying the consulting company’s claims that they purposely tried to get brands to pay them personally to avoid giving Envy their contracted cut of the revenue. The DeBoers also sued Envy for money they stated the company owes them but never paid out.
According to an order of dismissal issued on April 22 (and obtained by The Ashley), attorneys for Envy agreed to voluntarily dismiss its lawsuit against Chelsea, Cole and their companies. In addition, Chelsea and Cole voluntarily dismissed their lawsuit against Envy. Both dismissals were done without prejudice (meaning both parties will not be allowed to file additional lawsuits regarding this matter).
Envy had been seeking up to $4 million from Chelsea & Cole; however, in a filing on February 29, the court ruled in favor of the DeBoers on many parts of the lawsuit. The court decided that Chelsea and Cole’s ‘Teen Mom’ contracts had nothing to do with Envy, stating that Envy’s attempt to construe the DeBoers’ contracts with Viacom as “licensing agreements”–which would give the company a share of the proceeds the DeBoers made from the contracts— was a failure.
The court found that Chelsea and Cole negotiated and finalized their Viacom agreements before Envy came into the picture, despite what Envy was claiming. (The owner of Envy stated in the filing that she spent “hundreds if not thousands of hours” working on Chelsea and Cole’s ‘Teen Mom 2’ contract negotiations, something the court said Envy failed to show any proof of.)
“For all of these reasons, the Court holds that the DeBoers did not breach their [contacts] with Envy by failing to share revenue earned under their Viacom contracts,” the February 29 document states.
The Court also agreed with Cole and Chelsea that Envy purposely withheld money it owed them. (Envy acknowledged that it withheld money Cole and Chelsea earned because it felt that the DeBoers owed them a cut of their ‘Teen Mom 2’ money.)
As to how much Envy owed the DeBoers, the Court ruled at that time that it would be decided when (and if) the case went to trial. Since the case has been dismissed, there will be no trial.
