Musicians T.I. and Tiny secured a payday worth tens of millions of dollars this week in their intellectual property battle against toy company MGA Entertainment and its line of quirky OMG Fashion dolls.
Jurors on Monday awarded the hip-hop couple’s Grand Hustle and Pretty Hustle businesses and teen pop trio OMG Girlz $17.9 million in compensatory damages and $53.6 million in punitive damages, according to documents reviewed by The Times.
That’s a total win of more than $71 million. T.I.
and Tiny alleged in a 2021 counterclaim that MGA Entertainment (parent company of Little Tikes and Bratz) lifted the looks for its OMG Fashion dolls from OMG Girlz, the group Tiny formed in 2009. Since its founding, OMG Girlz has performed and released music under the hip-hop couple’s businesses. The musicians — whose real names are Clifford Harris Jr.
and Tameka Harris — alleged the group’s “unique fashion design, visual image and hair style [was] copied by MGA’s OMG Dolls” and without “any compensation, recognition or consent” from the trio’s creators. The 2021 counterclaim included side-by-side photos of MGA’s OMG dolls and the members of OMG Girlz, showing similarities in concert outfits and vibrant hairstyles. In 2010, MGA had announced plans to launch a doll line modeled after the “Where the Boys At?” girl group, but the toy company never reached a deal with Grand Hustle or Pretty Hustle, the counterclaim said.
MGA launched its OMG Fashion Dolls in 2019, all.
