told a judge she’s a little too busy to appear at a court hearing in Los Angeles, due to her being extremely busy entertaining ticket holders who she said pay up to $400 to see her on Broadway, In Touch can exclusively report.

On May 21, Nicole, 46, who has earned rave reviews in her ongoing run as Norma Desmond in Sunset Blvd in New York, filed court documents, obtained by In Touch, telling a L.A. judge she opposed her former business partner s request she be present for a conference.

Robin, 63, is the founder of The Pussycat Dolls, which Nicole was the lead singer from 2003 to 2009.

The group reunited in 2019 with plans for a tour but things fell apart before it launched, which led to Nicole and Robin suing each other.

Back in November 2024, the two told the court they had settled the case. However, they have been unable to finalize the terms of the deal.

In her recent motion, opposing Robin’s request she come to the conference, Nicole explained her busy schedule.

She told the court she was “committed to continue performing the lead role in the Broadway production of Sunset Boulevard until at least July 13, with eight performances each week, and has other personal and professional commitments that would make [her appearing at the hearing] unreasonably burdensome on her and cause irreparable harm.”

She said the harm would be caused to “third parties, including ticket holders who pay as much as $400 to see her and the many people and businesses that finance and work on the production.”

Nicole included a link to a review where a critic said she “astonishes” in the role.

The actress and singer said it would be “unfair” to make her appear in-person because, “[Robin] has caused this matter not to settle by her recent disclosure, after months of negotiating a structure that she requested, that she cannot satisfy an essential condition on which her structure depended.”

Robin scoffed at Nicole’s claims she was the reason the settlement was being held up.

Her lawyer noted, “From [Robin’s] perspective, delays have been, and continue to be caused by [Nicole] and her counsel and representatives despite the consistent and proactive efforts and communications from [Robin] and [her] counsel.”

The judge has yet to rule.

As In Touch previously reported, the legal drama started when Robin sued Nicole in September 2021.

She claimed Nicole agreed to a Pussycat Dolls reunion, which included a tour. She said Nicole was to be paid 49 percent of the profits. Robin said she spent a bunch of time working on the project.

Robin said the initial tour dates had to be rescheduled due to various issues.

She said when the new dates were locked in, Nicole refused to perform unless her cut was increased to 75 percent of the profits, along with “complete creative control” and “final-decision-making authority.”

“Tour dates were planned but are unable to be confirmed because of [Nicole’s] extortion,” the complaint read.

Robin said Live Nation gave her a $600,000 advance for the project, who were asking her for the money back at the time she filed the suit.

Nicole denied all allegations of wrongdoing in the case. She countersued Robin for $1.1 million in damages.

Her suit read, “[Robin] breached her duties and obligations to [Nicole], severely damaged PCD’s good will, and wasted the funding for the planned PCD reunion tour, ruining PCD’s ability to do business through self-dealing, waste and fraud.”

Her lawyer claimed, “First, [Robin] falsely represented to Live Nation, without [Nicole’s] knowledge or consent, that [Nicole] had agreed to a PCD tour long before she did. [Robin] made the misrepresentation to Live Nation to induce it to pay her a $600,000 advance, which she took, although she has never shown [Nicole] what she did with those funds.”

Nicole’s lawyer continued, “[Robin’s] misrepresentations to Live Nation prevented PCD from negotiating a better deal once [Nicole] was participating in the plans for a PCD reunion tour.”

Her suit added, “[Nicole] contributed more than $163,000 of her own money to pay PCD expenses, expenses which the money [Robin] took or diverted could have been used to pay, and that to this day have not been reimbursed. Not only was [Nicole] the only PCD member to personally contribute funds to pay reunion tour expenses, she was also the only one who never received any touring advance.”

In addition, Nicole said she gave up other work to do the project which led to her losing out on $1 million. Robin denied all allegations of wrongdoing.