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Eagles singer Don Henley filed a lawsuit in New York on Friday (June 28) in search of the return of his handwritten notes and music lyrics from the band’s 1976 album Resort California.
The civil criticism filed in Manhattan federal courtroom comes after prosecutors in March abruptly dropped prison fees halfway by a trial towards three collectibles specialists accused of scheming to promote the paperwork.
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The Eagles co-founder has maintained the pages had been stolen and had vowed to pursue a lawsuit when the prison case was dropped towards uncommon books vendor Glenn Horowitz, former Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame curator Craig Inciardi and rock memorabilia vendor Edward Kosinski.
“These 100 pages of non-public lyric sheets belong to Mr. Henley and his household, and he has by no means approved defendants or anybody else to hawk them for revenue,” Daniel Petrocelli, Henley’s lawyer, mentioned in an emailed assertion Friday.
In keeping with the lawsuit, the handwritten pages stay within the custody of Manhattan District Lawyer Alvin Bragg’s workplace, which declined to remark Friday on the litigation.
Legal professionals for Kosinski and Inciardi dismissed the authorized motion as baseless, noting the prison case was dropped after it was decided that Henley misled prosecutors by withholding essential data.
“Don Henley is determined to rewrite historical past,” Shawn Crowley, Kosinski’s lawyer, mentioned in an emailed assertion. “We sit up for litigating this case and bringing a lawsuit towards Henley to carry him accountable for his repeated lies and misuse of the justice system.”
Inciardi’s lawyer, Stacey Richman, mentioned in a separate assertion that the lawsuit makes an attempt to “bully” and “perpetuate a false narrative.”
A lawyer for Horowitz, who isn’t named as a defendant as he doesn’t declare possession of the supplies, didn’t reply to an e mail in search of remark.
Throughout the trial, the lads’s attorneys argued that Henley gave the lyrics pages a long time in the past to a author who labored on a never-published Eagles biography and later bought the handwritten sheets to Horowitz. He, in flip, bought them to Inciardi and Kosinski, who began placing a few of the pages up for public sale in 2012.
The prison case was abruptly dropped after prosecutors agreed that protection attorneys had basically been blindsided by 6,000 pages of communications involving Henley and his attorneys and associates.
Prosecutors and the protection mentioned they acquired the fabric solely after Henley and his attorneys made a last-minute choice to waive their attorney-client privilege shielding authorized discussions.
Choose Curtis Farber, who presided over the nonjury trial that opened in late February, mentioned witnesses and their attorneys used attorney-client privilege “to obfuscate and conceal data that they believed can be damaging” and that prosecutors “had been apparently manipulated.”
