Eagles singer Don Henley sues for return of handwritten ‘Hotel California’ lyrics, notes

Eagles vocalist Don Henley has filed a suit seeking the instrumentality of his handwritten opus notes and lyrics from the band’s deed “Hotel California” album

NEW YORK -- Eagles vocalist Don Henley filed a suit successful New York connected Friday seeking the instrumentality of his handwritten notes and opus lyrics from the band’s deed “Hotel California” album.

The civilian ailment filed successful Manhattan national tribunal comes aft prosecutors successful March abruptly dropped transgression charges midway done a proceedings against 3 collectibles experts accused of scheming to merchantability the documents.

The Eagles co-founder has maintained the pages were stolen and had vowed to prosecute a suit erstwhile the transgression lawsuit was dropped against uncommon books trader Glenn Horowitz, erstwhile Rock & Roll Hall of Fame curator Craig Inciardi and stone memorabilia seller Edward Kosinski.

“Hotel California,” released by the Eagles successful 1977, is the third-biggest selling album of each clip successful the U.S.

“These 100 pages of idiosyncratic lyric sheets beryllium to Mr. Henley and his family, and helium has ne'er authorized defendants oregon anyone other to peddle them for profit,” Daniel Petrocelli, Henley’s lawyer, said successful an emailed connection Friday.

According to the lawsuit, the handwritten pages stay successful the custody of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office, which didn't instantly remark Friday connected the litigation.

Kosinski’s lawyer Shawn Crowley said Henley is continuing to falsely impeach his client. He said the transgression charges against Kosinski were dropped aft it became wide Henley misled prosecutors by withholding captious accusation proving that Kosinski bought the pages successful bully faith.

“Don Henley is hopeless to rewrite history,” Crowley said successful his statement. “We look guardant to litigating this lawsuit and bringing a suit against Henley to clasp him accountable for his repeated lies and misuse of the justness system.”

Lawyers for Inciardi and Horowitz didn’t instantly comment, though Horowitz isn’t named arsenic a suspect successful the suit arsenic helium doesn’t assertion ownership of the materials.

During the trial, the men's lawyers argued that Henley gave the lyrics pages decades agone to a writer who worked connected a never-published Eagles biography and aboriginal sold the handwritten sheets to Horowitz. He, successful turn, sold them to Inciardi and Kosinski, who started putting immoderate of the pages up for auction successful 2012.

The transgression lawsuit was abruptly dropped aft prosecutors agreed that defence lawyers had fundamentally been blindsided by 6,000 pages of communications involving Henley and his attorneys and associates.

Prosecutors and the defence said they received the worldly lone aft Henley and his lawyers made a last-minute determination to waive their attorney-client privilege shielding ineligible discussions.

Judge Curtis Farber, who presided implicit the nonjury proceedings that opened successful precocious February, said witnesses and their lawyers utilized attorney-client privilege “to obfuscate and fell accusation that they believed would beryllium damaging” and that prosecutors “were seemingly manipulated.”

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Associated Press newsman Jennifer Peltz successful New York contributed to this report.

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