If it’s not secondary ticketing causing a problem, it’s preferential ticketing, and there’s nothing more guaranteed to make headlines than distraught children and aggrieved parents.

Kerry Inman, a New Jersey mother has filed a lawsuit against Interactive Media Marketing Inc. and Smiley Miley Inc., owners of the Miley Cyrus Fan Club, after failing to secure tickets for her Best of Both Worlds Tour.

If it’s not secondary ticketing causing a problem, it’s preferential ticketing, and there’s nothing more guaranteed to make headlines than distraught children and aggrieved parents.

Kerry Inman, a New Jersey mother has filed a lawsuit against Interactive Media Marketing Inc. and Smiley Miley Inc., owners of the Miley Cyrus Fan Club, after failing to secure tickets for her Best of Both Worlds Tour.

Cyrus stars in US hit TV show Hannah Montana, her entire US tour sold out in four minutes, with tickets subsequently offered on secondary sites for up to five times the face value. As part of their $29.99 (€20.23) joining fee, fan club members were promised ‘priority access’ to tickets for the tour, which began on 16 October.

"They deceptively lured thousands of individuals into purchasing memberships into the Miley Cyrus Fan Club," said attorney Rob Pierce, who filed the suit in the US District Court in Nashville on behalf of all aggrieved fan club members.

The suit accepts that joining the club did not actually guarantee tickets for fan club members, but that it did imply that access to tickets would be assured. The lawsuit argues that the defendants should have known that the site's membership vastly exceeded the number of available tickets, and they were unclear about this fact.

The lawsuit seeks triple damages for all members of the lawsuit and attorneys' fees. Cyrus and the other defendants are yet to comment on the lawsuit.