Three males, together with a curator for the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame, have been indicted for allegedly making an attempt to promote stolen handwritten lyrics by Eagles co-founder Don Henley valued at over $1 million.
Based on court docket paperwork, practically 100 pages of Henley’s notes, together with lyrics to “Resort California” and “Life within the Quick Lane,” had been stolen within the late Nineteen Seventies by an creator employed to put in writing a biography of the band.
Craig Inciardi, Glenn Horowitz and Edward Kosinski are accused of conspiring to promote Henley’s pages by means of public sale homes, regardless that they knew the gadgets had been stolen.
Rolling Stone notes that it was Horowitz who acquired the Eagles paperwork in 2005. He then allegedly recruited Inciardi and Kosinski in an effort to “unload the paperwork to varied public sale homes, in addition to making an attempt to ‘coerce’ Henley into shopping for again the property that rightfully belonged to him.”
Inciardi is the curator and director of acquisitions on the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame. He beforehand labored for the public sale home Sotheby’s earlier than becoming a member of the Corridor’s employees.
All three males have been charged with conspiracy within the fourth diploma, which carries as much as a four-year jail sentence. Inciardi and Kosinski had been additionally charged with prison possession, whereas Horowitz was charged with tried prison possession of stolen property and two counts of hindering prosecution. All three males pleaded not responsible.
“The DA’s workplace alleges criminality the place none exists and unfairly tarnishes the reputations of well-respected professionals,” the defendants’ attorneys mentioned through assertion. “We are going to combat these unjustified costs vigorously. These males are harmless.”
In the meantime, Eagles supervisor Irving Azoff informed Rolling Stone the indictments expose “the reality about music memorabilia gross sales of extremely private, stolen gadgets hidden behind a facade of legitimacy.”
“Nobody has the suitable to promote illegally obtained property or revenue from the outright theft of irreplaceable items of musical historical past,” he continued. “These handwritten lyrics are an integral a part of the legacy Don Henley has created over the course of his 50-plus-year profession.”
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