{"id":4108,"date":"2025-02-11T04:55:17","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T04:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/don-henley-irving-azoff-sued-in-eagles-stolen-lyrics-case\/"},"modified":"2025-02-11T04:55:17","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T04:55:17","slug":"don-henley-irving-azoff-sued-in-eagles-stolen-lyrics-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/don-henley-irving-azoff-sued-in-eagles-stolen-lyrics-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Don Henley & Irving Azoff Sued in Eagles Stolen Lyrics Case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n\tDon Henley and his longtime manager Irving Azoff<\/strong> are being sued by one of the men who was criminally charged \u2014 and later vindicated \u2014 for allegedly attempting to sell handwritten lyrics connected to the Eagles\u2018 1976 album Hotel California<\/em>, claiming they and their attorneys engaged in a \u201cmalicious prosecution\u201d that harmed his reputation and caused him financial losses and emotional distress. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe complaint, filed in New York state court on Thursday (Feb. 6), was filed against Henley, Azoff and the firms that represented them in their case: Manatt, Phelps & Phillips and Loeb & Loeb. In it, Horowitz claims the parties falsely alleged that he and his two co-defendants in the criminal case \u201cknew or had reason to believe\u201d that the lyric sheets \u201chad been unlawfully obtained\u201d and nonetheless attempted to profit off of them via an online auction. However, Horowitz claims the men and their attorneys knew all along that the notes had been acquired through legal means in the first place. <\/p>\n

\n\tHorowitz, a rare book dealer, and his co-defendants \u2014 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame curator Craig Inciardi and memorabilia auctioneer Edward Kosinski \u2014 were criminally charged in 2022 over an alleged conspiracy to resell the lyrics that had been handwritten by Henley while working on the Eagles\u2019 iconic Hotel California<\/em> album. At the time, prosecutors had accused the three men of hiding the fact that the documents had been stolen from Henley\u2019s home by Ed Sanders, a journalist hired by Henley and Azoff to write a never-published book on the Eagles in the late 1970s. <\/p>\n

\n\tBut in a stunning turnaround in March 2024, Manhattan prosecutors dropped the case after Henley produced new evidence previously withheld under attorney-client privilege that cast doubt on his and Azoff\u2019s allegations. The judge in the case subsequently dismissed the charges and chastised Henley, Azoff and their attorneys for \u201cobfuscat[ing] and hid[ing] information that they believed would be damaging to their position that the lyric sheets were stolen.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to Horowitz\u2019s attorney Caitlin Robin<\/strong>, the evidence cited by prosecutors and the judge in dropping the charges \u2014 a series of emails between Henley, Azoff and their attorneys \u2014 proves they were aware that Sanders had legally obtained the lyric sheets in the course of writing the never-published Eagles book. Nonetheless, she alleges they \u201cpurposefully withheld any disclosure thereof because they knew it would exculpate Plaintiff GLENN HOROWITZ and essentially destroy the fraudulent allegations they made about him.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAs a result of his \u201cunjust prosecution,\u201d Horowitz claims he \u201cwas deprived of his liberty and suffered humiliation, defamation, media harassment, diminished reputation, loss of business and\/or loss of wages amounting in more than ten million dollars ($10,000,000.00), in addition to mental anguish, indignity, frustration and financial loss.\u201d The complaint further alleges that Horowitz\u2019s wife Tracey (who is listed as a co-plaintiff) also \u201csuffered humiliation, defamation, media harassment, diminished reputation, and mental and emotional anguish\u201d as a result of her husband\u2019s prosecution.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a statement sent to Billboard<\/em>, Henley and Azoff\u2019s attorney Dan Petrocelli<\/strong> said, \u201cDon Henley was a witness and a victim in a criminal trial brought by the Manhattan District Attorney after a formal indictment of Glenn Horowitz by a New York grand jury. The indictment highlighted the dark underbelly of the memorabilia business that exploited the brazen, unauthorized taking and selling of Mr. Henley\u2019s handwritten lyrics. The only malicious prosecution involved here is the filing of this case by Mr. Horowitz.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Horowitzes are asking for damages \u201cin excess of the jurisdictional limits of all the lower Courts of the State of New York.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tManatt, Phelps & Phillips and Loeb & Loeb did not immediately respond to Billboard<\/em>\u2018s requests for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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