Glenn Horowitz, Craig Inciardi and Edward Kosinski have been accused on Tuesday of attempting to promote the supplies, price greater than $1 million, and mendacity to public sale homes, potential patrons and regulation enforcement about how they obtained them.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg stated the supplies embrace lyrics to the songs “Hotel California,” “Life in the Fast Lane” and “New Kid In Town,” with lots of the lyrics recovered by way of warrants.
Horowitz, 66, of Manhattan; Inciardi, 58, of Brooklyn, and Kosinski, 59, of Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, pleaded not responsible to conspiracy and prison possession costs, and Horowitz to hindering prosecution.
The defendants’ attorneys didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
Prosecutors stated a potential Eagles biographer had stolen the supplies within the late Seventies, and bought them to Horowitz, a uncommon books supplier, in 2005.
Horowitz then allegedly bought the supplies to Inciardi and Kosinski, who in flip tried promoting them at Christie’s and Sotheby’s or coercing Henley into shopping for them again.
The indictment incorporates dozens of emails concerning the defendants’ alleged 7-1/2-year scheme, together with Horowitz’s suggestion that he faux Eagles singer Glenn Frey had given him the stolen lyrics.
Frey “is dead and identifying him as (the) source would make this go away once and for all,” Horowitz allegedly wrote in February 2017, 13 months after Frey’s demise.
In an announcement, Eagles supervisor Irving Azoff stated nobody has a proper to revenue from “the outright theft of irreplaceable pieces of musical history. …Â We look forward to the return of Don’s property.”
The tune “Hotel California” is understood for summary lyrics that Henley has stated describe American extra, and a protracted guitar outro from Don Felder and Joe Walsh. It gained the 1977 Grammy award for file of the yr.
In 2014, Bob Dylan’s handwritten lyrics to “Like a Rolling Stone” fetched a file $2 million at Sotheby’s.
(Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; enhancing by Jonathan Oatis)
By Jonathan Stempel