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Eagles’ Don Henley Files Lawsuit for Return of Handwritten ‘Hotel California’ Lyrics
Eagles singer Don Henley filed a lawsuit in New York seeking the return of his handwritten notes and lyrics from the band’s 'Hotel California' album.
Eagles singer Don Henley filed a lawsuit in New York on Friday (June 28) seeking the return of his handwritten notes and song lyrics from the band’s 1976 album Hotel California. The civil complaint filed in Manhattan federal court comes after prosecutors in March abruptly dropped criminal charges midway through a trial against three collectibles experts accused of scheming to sell the documents. Judge Curtis Farber, who presided over the nonjury trial that opened in late February, said witnesses and their lawyers used attorney-client privilege “to obfuscate and hide information that they believed would be damaging” and that prosecutors “were apparently manipulated.”
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