Virginia businessman turns down plans with Pharrell to host Chappelle

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Virginia Beach businessman Bruce Thompson precocious turned down Grammy award-winning vocalist and Virginia Beach native, Pharrell Williams' plans to clasp an lawsuit astatine the historical Cavalier Hotel featuring comedian Dave Chappelle.

Days aft it surfaced, Pharrell has decided not to bring his Something successful the Water euphony festival to Virginia Beach.

Pharrell says the cancelation is owed to his dissatisfaction with the city's handling of the fatal constabulary shooting of his cousin, Donovon Lynch, successful March.

Thompson expressed his main interest is that the Cavalier is simply a household resort, and helium feels arsenic though Chappelle is not due for the environment.

“I made it wide that the Cavalier is simply a household edifice successful the mediate of a residential neighborhood. We consciousness Dave Chappelle’s worldly is not due to beryllium successful that environment,” helium said.

He says the lawsuit should not beryllium extracurricular connected the tract and should beryllium wrong “where radical tin elite to spell to the amusement alternatively than beryllium subjected to the show.”

Thompson says the lawsuit could perchance enactment retired if the lawsuit were moved inside.

Thompson wanted to enactment retired logistics.

He said nether the existent format, they cannot accommodate the assemblage size extracurricular connected the lawn.

He told WTKR that Pharrell’s accumulation manager suggested the Cavalier’s determination was racially motivated. However, Thompson states that is not the lawsuit and says, “it’s unfair to suggest that.”

Thompson said helium would similar to talk to Pharrell straight and says helium ne'er heard backmost from his team.

He told WTKR that helium has thing against Pharrell and hosted him and his squad astatine the edifice during the Something successful the Water Festival.

WTKR spoke to a idiosyncratic adjacent to Pharrell Williams that said, "The lawsuit was attempted to beryllium hosted astatine the Cavalier, and for assorted reasons, the edifice was not capable to accommodate the event. It volition beryllium moved to different determination aboriginal this month."

WTKR archetypal reported this story.