Chapter 01 · Summary

Summary: what the public record shows

Fifteen years of court files, registries and news reports about Ryan Burke and his companies, set out by what courts decided, what witnesses swore and what others have alleged.

The Ryan Burke Public Record · Updated November 11, 2026 · How this record was compiled

Ryan Burke is a Miami-based promoter and talent booker who has done business since 2008 through Vision Entertainment Worldwide LLC, VEW Live, LLC, NWE Talent Agency and Management, Inc. and, more recently, the companies behind the BZR WKND Jamaica concerts. Between 2011 and November 2026 his name, or the names of those companies, appear in federal and state lawsuits over celebrity bookings, money judgments, a lending dispute that ended in a criminal-contempt order, a $2.09 million foreclosure judgment, two bankruptcy cases filed by a company he manages, a federal fraud and racketeering complaint brought by two investors, and the postponement of an October 2026 concert after its headliner, Cardi B, withdrew.

This chapter summarizes that record. Each statement below is developed, with full citations, in the chapter linked beside it. The summary keeps the same distinctions the chapters do. Court findings come first because they carry the most weight. Allegations are identified as allegations. Burke’s positions are collected in Chapter 15.

The record at a glance

The perjury and criminal-contempt finding

The one criminal adjudication in the record comes from a civil lending case in Broward County. Kameka Management Solutions, Inc. and Eryck Dzotsi obtained a default judgment in 2022 against Burke, VEW Live and two property companies after a process server swore she served Burke in person at his home in Sunrise, Florida, on April 11, 2022. Burke moved to undo the judgment. In a sworn affidavit, at a deposition and on the witness stand he said he had been in Las Vegas from April 1 to April 14, 2022, and so could not have been served. After an evidentiary hearing in August 2023, the judge granted the motion and quashed service.

Records subpoenaed from American Airlines then listed Burke as having flown from Las Vegas to Miami overnight on April 4, 2022, a week before the service date, and the carrier could not locate a manifest for the April 14 return flight he had described. The plaintiffs moved for criminal contempt.

Criminal contempt is imposed by a judge to protect the court’s own process. It is not a prosecution by a state attorney, and no criminal charge filed by a prosecutor against this Ryan Burke was found. Whether the jail term was served, modified or appealed is not established by the primary records reviewed; a secondary account reports a May 16, 2025 modification replacing jail with a $5,000 fine and 30 hours of community service, but this publication has not seen that order. Chapter 08 sets out the case filing by filing, with the redacted transcripts, airline records and order.

Celebrity bookings and the money paid for them, 2011–2014

The earliest detailed record is a federal case in Miami over Lady Gaga. In late 2011 a Russian broadcaster, TV Service ZAO, paid money, partly through an intermediary and partly directly to Burke’s company, toward a Lady Gaga appearance at its 2012 Moscow music awards; NWE Talent Agency, which Burke controlled, received $1,500,000 of it. The artist never agreed to the proposals. When ZAO demanded its money back, Burke’s companies counterclaimed for breach of contract.

The court rejected the counterclaim but did not release the frozen funds to ZAO, which still had to prove its fraud, unjust-enrichment and conversion claims at trial. The case closed later that month. No merits verdict on ZAO’s claims was found in the reviewed sources, and the terminating document was not available. The same order describes Burke’s mother as a “figurehead” president of NWE and the companies’ listed Miami offices as “virtual offices” (Chapter 04).

In December 2012 Courthouse News Service reported an accusation that VEW and Burke had taken $75,000 by claiming they could book Rihanna, who was not a party. No adjudication of that claim was found. In 2013 VEW was itself the plaintiff, suing Mary J. Blige and her production company in New York for the return of a $145,000 advance after a Dallas concert did not go ahead. Blige’s side said VEW had not met the deal’s travel terms. On October 17, 2014, Judge Analisa Torres granted summary judgment to the Blige defendants and entered a $105,000 judgment for Mary Jane Productions against VEW.³ Both disputes are in Chapter 05.

Money judgments, 2020–2026

Recorded-instrument citations in the official records index report three money judgments. This publication has not independently retrieved the instruments or the case dockets, and the link between each case and this Ryan Burke is treated as provisional. The citations report a February 2023 New Jersey award of $1,100,534.43 against Burke and VEW Live jointly in favor of VEW Capital Group, later domesticated in Miami-Dade, where a garnishment judgment in the enforcement case was reportedly marked satisfied in June 2024 (which is not the same as satisfaction of the whole award); a February 2020 Miami-Dade judgment of $625,000 plus interest against Burke and VEW Live for Joe Clark after a settlement agreement was breached; and a May 2026 default judgment of $83,487.37 against VEW Live alone for Bayfront Park Management Trust. Current balances are not public (Chapter 06).

The Davie property and two company bankruptcies, 2021–2026

A property company Burke manages, 2045 SW 127th Avenue, LLC, owned a parcel in Davie, Florida. It was subject to a senior lien securing a $962,000 promissory note dated July 23, 2021, and was the property against which the Kameka plaintiffs held a $107,212 equitable lien. On July 16, 2026, a senior judge entered a final judgment of foreclosure of $2,089,122.81 on the senior lien and ordered a sale for August 20, 2026 (Chapter 09).

The same company twice filed for Chapter 11 protection. The first case, filed May 21, 2024, was dismissed in July 2024 without a discharge. The second, filed April 21, 2025, was converted to a Chapter 7 liquidation on the U.S. Trustee’s motion in September 2025; in it, the Kameka plaintiffs filed a $178,415.77 claim and the company’s own summary listed Burke as manager and sole shareholder. In November 2026 the Chapter 7 trustee was authorized to distribute $74.92 to the debtor’s representative (Chapter 10).

BZR WKND and the Illinois investors, 2023–2026

BZR WKND Jamaica began with a concert at Kingston’s National Stadium scheduled for August 27, 2023, at which Chris Brown performed after midnight, into August 28. The July 2024 edition was postponed, citing Hurricane Beryl, and an April 26, 2025 “Carnival Edition” at Sabina Park with Sexyy Red was later reported cancelled for weather (Chapter 12).

Counsel for Burke appeared in October 2025 for “Ryan Matthew Burke, erroneously sued as ‘Ryan Burke’” and moved to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction. The docket shows an order on that motion in December 2025 and a judgment on January 20, 2026, but the documents were not available for this edition, so whether the case was dismissed or decided on other grounds is not established (Chapter 11).

The 2026 Cardi B cancellation

Cardi B was announced on August 14, 2026 as the headliner of BZR WKND Jamaica on October 18 at the National Stadium. Her representatives confirmed her withdrawal on October 8; ticket sales were suspended, the concert was moved to December 20 and refunds were promised from October 19. On November 3 the Jamaica Observer reported ticket buyers still waiting for refunds.⁵

Neither account has been tested in court, and no lawsuit by either side had been located as of November 11, 2026. Chapter 13 sets out the chronology and both accounts side by side.

What the record does not show

The record does not contain a criminal charge brought by a prosecutor, an arrest record or a criminal conviction of this Ryan Burke; the May 2024 contempt order is the only criminal adjudication found. Several of the most significant civil matters ended without a public decision on the merits: no merits verdict on ZAO’s fraud claims in the Lady Gaga case was found, the Rihanna claim’s outcome is unknown, and the content of the Illinois judgment is not yet available. The amounts in this record are not added together: judgments, claims, payments and estimates are different kinds of figures, and current balances are generally not public. Chapter 14 describes features that recur across the cases, and Chapter 16 lists what remains unanswered and which records would answer it.