Bon Jovi Sued For $400 Billion

Four hundred billion dollars is a lot of money (an unthinkable amount, in fact), and that's the amount of a lawsuit against Jon Bon Jovi.

Bon Jovi is being sued by musician Samuel Bartley Steele because Steele alleges that the "Livin' On A Prayer" singer stole the lyrics from his Boston Red Sox-inspired song "(Man I Really) Love This Team" and used them in "I Love This Town," which appeared on his band's 2007 album Lost Highway.

Major League Baseball On TBS used "I Love This Town" in promotions during the 2007 Major League Baseball playoffs, and used it again this year during the post-season.

"I know I'm the little fish and they're the big fish, but they fucked with the wrong piranha," Steele told the Boston Herald newspaper. "I want credit, acknowledgement and an apology. I know that I'm right."

Steele, who plays in the band The Chelsea City Council, wrote "(Man I Really) Love This Team" in 2004 before the Boston Red Sox won that year's World Series. Steele says he thinks Bon Jovi somehow either got a copy of it or heard him performing it during those playoffs when he busked outside Boston's Fenway Park. Steele was in Boston campaigning for John Kerry, who was the Democratic presidential candidate at that time.

According to the Boston Herald, Bon Jovi was in Boston on Nov. 2, 2004, which was election day. The World Series ended six days earlier.

Spokespersons for Bon Jovi said they had not yet seen the lawsuit.