FDD Items 3 & 4 · 2026 filing
Gold’s Gym litigation history
What Gold’s Gym disclosed about lawsuits, arbitrations and bankruptcy in the 2026 Franchise Disclosure Document. Item 3 lists the material legal actions a franchisor must report; Item 4 covers bankruptcy. This is the franchisor's own disclosure, not a court record, and not legal advice.
Items 3 (litigation) & 4 (bankruptcy) at a glance
What the filing discloses
- Cases disclosed
- 0
- Item 3, as counted in the filing
- Largest settlement, franchisor's own cases
- N/A
- Bankruptcy (Item 4)
- Disclosed
- Franchisor, parent, predecessor or officer
- Filing year
- 2026
- Disclosures cover the prior ten years
Extracted from the 2026 Franchise Disclosure Document
Item 3: litigation
No litigation required to be disclosed under Item 3.
Disclosed in the 2026 Franchise Disclosure Document
Item 4: bankruptcy
Predecessor (Gold's Gym Franchising LLC) and certain parents/affiliates filed voluntary Chapter 11 petition on May 4, 2020 in N.D. Texas (In re GGI Holdings, LLC, case no. 20-31318). Assets sold via court-approved auction to Immediate Parent, closing August 24, 2020; Chapter 11 plan confirmed August 26, 2020.
Before you weigh a lawsuit
How to read Item 3
A franchisor must disclose pending actions and any material civil action involving the franchise relationship, plus convictions or civil judgments for fraud, unfair or deceptive practices, or franchise-law violations, going back ten years. A case the franchisor brought against a franchisee counts too. Item 3 does not include every dispute: settled claims below the materiality line and matters resolved in private arbitration can be absent.
Questions worth asking current and former franchisees, using the contact list in Item 20:
- Were you, or anyone you know in the system, party to a dispute with the franchisor?
- Was it resolved by settlement, arbitration or a court, and on what terms?
- Has the number of disputes gone up or down since you signed?