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Eagles Stolen Notes Trial Ends Suddenly After Judge Says Don Henley ‘Manipulated’ Prosecutors

The Eagles stolen notes trial came to an abrupt end after charges were dropped, with the judge saying Don Henley "manipulated" prosecutors.

At a hearing Wednesday, a New York judge dismissed the charges after prosecutors alerted him that newly uncovered evidence cast doubt on whether Henley’s notes had been stolen in the first place – the core defense advanced by Glenn Horowitz, Craig Inciardi and Edward Kosinski. At a hearing in open court on Wednesday, Justice Curtis Farber sharply criticized Henley and Azoff’s conduct: “It is now clear that both witnesses and their lawyers … used the privilege to obfuscate and hide information that they believed would be damaging to their position that the lyric sheets were stolen.” Horowitz, a rare book dealer, Inciardi, a curator at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and Kosinski, a memoriabila auctioneer, were all charged in 2022 with conspiracy over accusations that they tried to resell and hide the origin of the handwritten notes, penned by Henley during the creation of Hotel California.

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