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Deadmau5 is embroiled in a court case with a blackjack player after the gambler refused to pay up $200,000 to the DJ - a sum agreed by both parties for Deadmau5 to spin Bon Jovi's 'Livin' On A Prayer'.
Confused? It doesn't get any simpler. Court documents show that Deadmau5, one of the highest-paid DJs in the world, was spinning at the Wynn Las Vegas resort when famous blackjack player Don Johnson told Deadmau5's agent he'd pay him $200,000 to play Bon Jovi's cheesetastic 'Livin' On A Prayer'.
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Deadmau5's agent, who has the same name as his famous DJ client - Joel Zimmerman (told you it was confusing) - agreed to the request, and 'Livin' On A Prayer' was spun in all its glory. However, it quickly went wrong when unsurprisingly Johnson, who once won a cool $6 million in one night of gambling, refused to pay up when challenged by Zimmerman (the agent). He dramatically fled Las Vegas the next day.
Club promoter Jesse Waits agreed to pay $50,000 towards the debt, and Deadmau5's own talent agency, the William Morris Agency coughed up the rest. Now William Morris are threatening to sue Waits (not the gambler, for some reason), claiming he misrepresented Johnson's promise to pay up.
