Don Henley Still Wants Those Hotel California Pages Back

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Is this the past resort? Per the Associated Press and Variety, Eagles vocalist Don Henley filed a civilian suit successful New York connected Friday implicit the now-familiar allegation that his handwritten lyrics and notes for songs connected Hotel California were stolen from him. According to his suit, Henley recovered retired astir the alleged theft erstwhile immoderate of the pages went up for auction successful 2012. “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,” Henley’s lawyer, Daniel Petrocelli, said successful a statement.

The ailment comes aft a criminal proceedings involving the pages came to an abrupt halt successful March. In that nonjury trial, defendants and well-known collectors Glenn Horowitz, Craig Inciardi, and Edward Kosinski each pleaded not blameworthy to conspiring to person stolen property. Defense lawyers claimed that Henley gave the pages — with nary anticipation that they would beryllium returned — to a writer moving connected a never-published Eagles biography. According to the defendants, Horowitz purchased the pages from the writer and past sold them to Inciardi and Kosinski, each done ineligible transactions. Prosecution dropped the case days aft Henley’s last-minute determination to waive attorney-client privilege, which meant the defence received 6,000 pages of caller documents. The trial’s presiding justice said captious accusation had been withheld and that prosecutors “were seemingly manipulated.”

Only Kosinski and Inciardi are named successful Henley’s caller civilian complaint, which reportedly includes an allegation that the brace erstwhile attempted to ransom the pages backmost to Henley. (The pages that Henley wants backmost truthful severely are, per his complaint, presently successful the custody of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office.) Kosinski’s lawyer said successful a connection that Henley is “desperate to rewrite history,” adding, “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.” Inciardi’s lawyer said successful a abstracted connection that the singer’s ailment attempts to “bully” and “perpetuate a mendacious narrative.” Meanwhile, Henley is owed to statesman a residency with the Eagles astatine Las Vegas’s Sphere successful September.