Krewella Sisters Countersue

The Yousafs are seeking a declaratory judgment plus damages and allege Trindl wasn’t pushed out, but instead resigned from Krewella, according to court documents.

Their suit charges him with several breaches of fiduciary duty and breaches of contract that “caused the Yousafs significant monetary damage and have unjustly enriched Trindl.”

Further, the sisters claim that although they agreed from the beginning that they would evenly split all income from Krewella with Trindl, who served as their music producer, he never actually learned how to DJ and was just pretending during performances.

Trindl allegedly began drinking heavily, was using drugs, and “soon became disruptive on stage as a result of his intoxication.

“Kris would recklessly use his controller to mess up Jahan and Yasmine’s mixing or would simply stop the music,” the suit notes. “Kris’s behavior became so disruptive that Yasmine would unplug and deactivate his equipment to limit the disruption; however Kris would be too intoxicated to notice. On other instances, again as a result of intoxication, he would belligerently and angrily yell at the audience of fans that paid to come to the show.”

Trindl entered a rehab program in August 2013 but continued to struggle with sobriety, missing many tour dates from fall of that year through spring 2014, the Yousafs said. His work on new material for Krewella also declined and he failed to show for studio sessions.

Finally, in June, Trindl informed Krewella’s manager via text message that he was discussing the terms of a disassociation from Krewella with the band’s attorney.

“I need u [sic] to help me quit,” one text reportedly read. “Fairly.”

The suit claims Trindl has been paid out more than $400,000 in the time since he stopped touring with the Yousafs and stopped producing new music for the group, “under the mistaken belief that he was going to take his sobriety seriously and become a full-fledged participating member of Krewella once again when sober. But Kris has not done so.”

Along with the declaratory judgment, the Yousafs are seeking compensatory damages and attorneys’ fees and costs, among other relief.