After a four-year authorized battle that led to the closure of her make-up model, magnificence influencer Tati Westbrook mentioned the lawsuit has now been settled.
“The previous 4 years are performed. It’s over,” mentioned Westbrook in an Aug. 1 video on her YouTube channel about former enterprise accomplice Clark Swanson’s lawsuit towards her and her manufacturers. Within the video, she additionally introduced her plan to independently relaunch her make-up model Tati Magnificence. She and her husband, James Westbrook, are stepping down from Halo Magnificence as a part of the settlement.
“It was settled on the telephone with out legal professionals,” she mentioned of the lawsuit, which was filed by Swanson, her co-founder at complement model Halo Magnificence, on Oct. 20, 2020. Naming the Westbrooks, Halo Magnificence, and her make-up label guardian firm Tati Cosmetics, the lawsuit had accused Westbrook and her husband of fraud, negligence, and breach of fiduciary responsibility to Halo Magnificence.
Within the new video, Westbrook additionally revealed particulars on her plans to relaunch Tati Magnificence, which she shuttered in November 2021. On the time, she listed each the COVID-19 pandemic and the lawsuit as causes for the shutdown.
“I will likely be shifting on from Halo Magnificence, as will James, and the great factor is I can now focus my vitality on relaunching my make-up model,” she mentioned. Shifting ahead, she additionally acknowledged she is fascinated with launching a perfume model, which she mentioned she had been “knee-deep” in with a trademarked identify earlier than “litigation acquired in the best way” of the launch.
She added that the settlement of the lawsuit eliminated any authorized points with utilizing her identify on new manufacturers.
“I’ve my identify again and I’m free,” she mentioned within the video.
She additionally famous that her Tati Magnificence relaunch won’t contain exterior enterprise companions. Tati Magnificence’s authentic launch by a partnership with Seed Magnificence was a degree of rivalry in Swanson’s lawsuit, which alleged that the choice to create a make-up model with a separate accomplice marked a breach of the Westbrooks’ fiduciary responsibility to Halo Magnificence.
“I don’t need a accomplice in something that I do,” she mentioned.
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