The lawsuit follows a failed comeback bid.

Two members of ’90s R&B act En Vogue (pictured above in its current incarnation) are being sued for $310 million by their former record label for alleged breach of contract, negligence, interference and fraud, Billboard reports.

Rufftown Entertainment owner René Moore claims that he paid Cindy Herron, Terry Ellis and former member Maxine Jones approximately $190,000 in 2010 as part of a comeback bid that was to include two albums and touring.

When the comeback bid flopped, Jones left the group and was replaced by new member Rhona Bennett in 2012. The problems began when the group signed to Pyramid Records, which plaintiffs allege was in violation of the terms of the original contract with Rufftown. According to the filing, fraudulent and illegal documents were used to make the new contract official.

The lawsuit names En Vogue Enterprises, Herron, Ellis, Bennett, lawyer Allen Jacobi and Pyramid among the defendants, though Jones is spared because she because she “substantially performed her obligation under the agreement.”

The lawsuit is just the latest in a series of dramas for the act, who originally formed in 1989. Back in 2012 when Jones left the group with Dawn Robinson, they started their own version of En Vogue with two new members. A court battle between the two parties ensued, which judged Herron and Ellis had the rights to the name, though a subsequent $1 million lawsuit filed by the pair against Jones and Robinson for unauthorised use of the name was ruled to be without merit.

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