Reggae act UB40 has gone through it. So have the members of Pink Floyd and the Los Angeles rap group The Pharcyde. All of those acts have sued each other for the use of the band’s name and En Vogue can also be added to that list. Things came to a head between En Vogue members Terry Ellis, Cindy Herron–Bragg, and Maxine Jones in 2012. By then, fourth member Dawn Robinson had left the group and joined the band, Lucy Pearl. A disagreement broke out between En Vogue’s remaining members after that. Simply put, Jones wanted her own manager, while Herron–Bragg and Ellis wanted someone they were comfortable with to manage the group.
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So, Jones refused to show up to gigs and was eventually kicked out of the trio. She then partnered up with Robinson to form En Vogue, and the other two women did the same after hiring another singer. Herron-Bragg and Ellis then sued Jones, who blasted them, while calling her ex-bandmates controlling. “Yup, Terry n Cindy r evil! They took over the LLC n bank acct, forced me out, gave my gigs 2 that chick LOL, and SUING #ME!” tweeted Jones in a since-deleted post in 2012, which has since been deleted. The ladies reunited in 2019, but it didn’t last. As of 2023, En Vogue consists of Ellis, Herron, and Rhona Bennett, who joined the group in 2003.
