However, it says Henley continued to pursue his property, and things hit a snag in 2014 when Henley’s attorney contacted Sotheby’s to stop the sale of the original lyrics to the Eagles’ 1977 hit, “Life in the Fast Lane,” claiming them to be “either counterfeit or stolen.”.
After the termination of his contract to write the Eagles book, Sanders “retained possession” of 11 notepads he received from Henley, which the rock star had filled with various notes and song lyrics during the making of “Hotel California,” the complaint states.
In laying out their provenance, Kosinski told the lawyer that had purchased the lyrics from Horowitz, who had in fact done business “amicably” with Henley previously, according to the complaint.
Henley told police and the Manhattan District Attorney’s office that poet and author Ed Sanders, who the Eagles hired in 1979 to pen a never-published memoir about the band had “burglarized [Henley’s] residential estate… to obtain possession of the handwritten lyrics.”.
In December 2016, Inciardi and Kosinski once again approached Sotheby’s, this time to sell Henley’s original drafts of the lyrics to the title track from “Hotel California,” according to the complaint.
