Missouri AG donates 'Hannah Montana' tickets after lawsuit

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon has donated 91 tickets to a "Hannah Montana" concert to four charities after resolving claims that two ticket brokers sold tickets above face value.

Nixon announced Wednesday that his office had resolved its legal issues with a pair of ticket brokers, Ticket Solutions of Overland Park and RazorGator of Los Angeles.

Nixon claimed the ticket brokers violated state and local consumer protection laws by selling tickets with face values of $26 to $56 for several hundred dollars. He also said that the brokers claimed to have tickets for specific seats when they did not.

Tickets for the Dec. 3 performance by 14-year-old Miley Cyrus, star of the Disney Channel show, sold out almost immediately, frustrating parents who then found scalpers offering dozens of the tickets for inflated prices.

The 91 donated tickets were given to the Boys and Girls Clubs, Big Brothers Big Sisters, the Make-A-Wish Foundation and the Dream Factory.

Both organizations also agreed to make changes to language on their Web sites regarding the availability of tickets to comply with local scalping ordinances in Kansas City until a new state law goes into effect Nov. 28 that allows scalping in Missouri.

Nixon didn't sue RazorGator because the company had agreed to cooperate, he said. Nixon has also sued GoTickets Inc. and Tickets Now Entertainment Group, both in Illinois.