Quick Takes: Apparent suicide at Northern California concert

A man jumped from a roof onto the stage during a Swell Season concert in Saratoga, Calif., on Thursday night, in what was apparently a suicide, according to news reports and witnesses.

Glen Hansard had just finished a song and was chatting with the band’s guitarist when an unidentified concert-goer jumped from the rooftop of Saratoga Mountain Winery, west of San Jose, leaving behind his friend who had come with him, according to Santa Clara County sheriff’s Sgt. Rick Sung.

The man jumped off near the lighting rig and landed on the stage a few feet from Glen Hansard, who walked over briefly before eventually vacating the stage with former sweetheart Markéta Irglová and the rest of the band.

Swell Season, best known for Hansard and Irglová’s romantic interplay captured in the 2006 movie “Once,” released a statement Friday saying, “Their hearts go out to the victim and his friends and family.”

—Margaret Wappler

Judge dismisses Jackson lawsuit

A federal judge has dismissed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit by a concert promoter against the late Michael Jackson over a failed reunion concert.

U.S. District Judge Harold Baer Jr. on Thursday granted a motion by lawyers for Jackson’s estate to dismiss the case.

AllGood Entertainment Inc. sued Jackson on June 10, 2009, roughly two weeks before the singer’s death in Los Angeles at age 50. They claimed Jackson and his then-manager, Frank DiLeo, broke a contract for a Jackson reunion show.

Attorneys for Jackson’s estate and DiLeo said that if there was a breach in the contract, AllGood broke the agreement first.

—Associated Press

Fisk’s O’Keeffe art deal quashed

A Nashville judge has rejected Fisk University’s proposal to sell a joint share in a 101-piece collection donated by late artist Georgia O’Keeffe to an Arkansas museum.

Fisk argued that its precarious financial state prevents the historically black university from maintaining and displaying the collection.

Judge Ellen Hobbs Lyle agreed Friday that the cash-strapped school is unable to exhibit the collection, but she said its proposal to sell a 50% stake to the Crystal Bridges Museum in Bentonville, Ark., for $30 million does not meet the terms of the donation O’Keeffe made to the school in 1949.

Lyle ordered the state attorney general to offer a “Nashville-based solution” within 20 days.

The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe., N.M., sued unsuccessfully last year to take control of the collection from Fisk.

—Associated Press

‘Material Girl’ dispute arises

Madonna has been hit with a lawsuit over her new “Material Girl” fashion line for teenagers by a California clothing company that says it has been using the name since 1997.

L.A. Triumph filed a lawsuit against the pop superstar in the California Central District court Thursday, two weeks after the Madonna line went on sale in the Macy’s chain.

The company said in its suit that it has been “continually selling similar clothes in similar retail outlets at similar price points under their Material Girl brand since at least 1997, and Madonna and her newfound company do not have the right to trade in the same space under this brand.”

Madonna teamed up with her 13-year-old daughter Lourdes to design the 1980s-inspired clothing line, which borrows from the pop star’s punk-girl style when she rose to fame in the 1980s.

Macy’s declined to comment Friday. Madonna’s spokeswoman could not be reached.

—Reuters

Courtney Love’s birthday present

Some moms say it with a Hallmark card, but Courtney Love addressed her estranged daughter’s 18th birthday this week via Twitter, in a nonstop series of tweets that were both anguished and bitter.

Love began her hours-long plea by urging Frances Bean Cobain to flee the court-appointed guardianship of her late father Kurt Cobain’s mother, Wendy, and sister, Kimberly.

“i have prayed youd get mad at them not run to them,” Love wrote in one of many tweets, adding that her deceased husband despised his mother. “i love you but your 18 now do NOT allow any guardianship to continue whatsoever! theyll lie to you tell you it has to,. no it doesnt!”

—CNN

Finally

No last call yet: NBC renewed “Last Call With Carson Daly” for a 10th season.

Cast changes: Lisa Wu Hartwell won’t be part of the cast when “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” starts its third season Oct. 4, Bravo reported, but there will be two new women in her place: model Cynthia Bailey and entertainment lawyer Phaedra Parks.