The ex-manager of musician Tom Waits is suing Random House for $1 million in general damages and an undetermined amount in punitive damages, as well as corrections to be made in the book, over claims made about him in a biography of Waits released last month.
According to the law suite (pdf) filed by Herb Cohen, the book, Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits by Barney Hoskyns, says that he “robbed Waits of royalties for years” using fraudulent accounting practices; that he “helped himself” to income from his other clients, which included, over the years, Frank Zappa, Linda Ronstandt, Alice Cooper, Fred Neil, and George Duke; and that Waits considered him part of an unfortunate group of “flesh peddlers and professional vermin I’d thrown in with.”
As a brief report from Billboard notes, “Cohen has alleged that these statements are false and defamatory.”
According to the law suite (pdf) filed by Herb Cohen, the book, Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits by Barney Hoskyns, says that he “robbed Waits of royalties for years” using fraudulent accounting practices; that he “helped himself” to income from his other clients, which included, over the years, Frank Zappa, Linda Ronstandt, Alice Cooper, Fred Neil, and George Duke; and that Waits considered him part of an unfortunate group of “flesh peddlers and professional vermin I’d thrown in with.”
As a brief report from Billboard notes, “Cohen has alleged that these statements are false and defamatory.”
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