NEW YORK (AP) — Eagles singer Don Henley filed a lawsuit in New York on Friday looking for the return of his handwritten notes and track lyrics from the band’s hit “Lodge California” album.The civil criticism filed in Manhattan federal court docket comes after prosecutors in March abruptly dropped prison expenses halfway by way of a trial in opposition to three collectibles consultants accused of scheming to promote the paperwork. The Eagles co-founder has maintained the pages had been stolen and had vowed to pursue a lawsuit when the prison case was dropped in opposition to uncommon books vendor Glenn Horowitz, former Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame curator Craig Inciardi and rock memorabilia vendor Edward Kosinski. “Lodge California,” launched by the Eagles in 1977, is the third-biggest promoting album of all time within the U.S.“These 100 pages of private lyric sheets belong to Mr. Henley and his household, and he has by no means licensed defendants or anybody else to hawk them for revenue,” Daniel Petrocelli, Henley’s lawyer, stated 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.
Attorneys 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 crucial data.
“Don Henley is determined to rewrite historical past,” Shawn Crowley, Kosinski’s lawyer, stated in an emailed assertion. “We look ahead to litigating this case and bringing a lawsuit in opposition to Henley to carry him accountable for his repeated lies and misuse of the justice system.”Inciardi’s lawyer, Stacey Richman, stated 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 electronic mail looking for remark.
In the course of the trial, the boys’s legal professionals 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 offered the handwritten sheets to Horowitz. He, in flip, offered them to Inciardi and Kosinski, who began placing a number of the pages up for public sale in 2012.The prison case was abruptly dropped after prosecutors agreed that protection legal professionals had primarily been blindsided by 6,000 pages of communications involving Henley and his attorneys and associates. Prosecutors and the protection stated they obtained the fabric solely after Henley and his legal professionals made a last-minute choice to waive their attorney-client privilege shielding authorized discussions.Decide Curtis Farber, who presided over the nonjury trial that opened in late February, stated witnesses and their legal professionals used attorney-client privilege “to obfuscate and conceal data that they believed can be damaging” and that prosecutors “had been apparently manipulated.”___Associated Press reporter Jennifer Peltz in New York contributed to this report.___Follow Philip Marcelo at twitter.com/philmarcelo.