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Checking Into the Eagles’ ‘Hotel California’ Criminal Trial
Don Henley claims the band’s lyrics were stolen and plans to testify.
A non-jury criminal trial in Manhattan centers on over 80 pages of the band’s lyrics, some of which ended up at auction after a writer sold them to a rare-books dealer. When the first manuscripts were put up for sale in 2012, singer Don Henley claimed they had been stolen, leading the Manhattan district attorney’s office to get involved. The defense argued the lyrics were not stolen in a 2022 motion to dismiss the case, according to Rolling Stone, claiming Sanders merely obtained them while shadowing the band.
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