Don Henley Still Wants Those Hotel California Pages Back

Is this the final vacation resort? For each the Linked Press and Wide variety, Eagles singer Don Henley filed a civil lawsuit in New York on Friday around his now–familiar allegation that his handwritten lyrics and notes for songs on Hotel California ended up stolen from him. “These 100 pages of personalized lyric sheets belong to Mr. Henley and his relatives, and he has in no way approved defendants or any individual else to peddle them for revenue,” Henley’s attorney, Daniel Petrocelli, said in a statement. According to the lawsuit, Henley uncovered out about the alleged theft when some of the internet pages went up for auction in 2012.

The complaint comes after prosecutors abruptly dropped prices in a prison trial involving these internet pages in March. In that trial, defendants and effectively-known collectors Glenn Horowitz, Craig Inciardi, and Edward Kosinski each pleaded not responsible to conspiring to possess stolen residence. Defense legal professionals claimed that Henley gave the web pages — with no expectation that they would be returned — to a author who was functioning on a in no way-revealed Eagles biography. In accordance to the defendants, by means of authorized transactions, Horowitz ordered the webpages from the writer and then bought them to Inciardi and Kosinski. Ultimately, prosecution dropped the situation following finding “damaging” new disclosures. The decide who presided in excess of the demo explained vital info experienced been withheld and that prosecutors “were seemingly manipulated.”

Only Kosinski and Inciardi are named in Henley’s new civil criticism, which reportedly also involves an allegation that the pair after attempted to ransom the internet pages back to Henley. In response to the lawsuit, Kosinski’s attorney explained in a statement that the singer is “desperate to rewrite heritage,” adding, “We seem forward to litigating this circumstance and bringing a lawsuit towards Henley to keep him accountable for his recurring lies and misuse of the justice method.” Inciardi’s attorney reported in a different statement that the new criticism attempts to “bully” and “perpetuate a false narrative.”