The cache of handwritten manuscripts worth over $1 million included the lyrics to “Hotel California.”
The song’s creation process was documented by Henley in pages that vanished after a writer who was working on a book about the band got ahold of them. The writer — who was not identified in the indictment — then sold the items in 2005 to Horowitz, who in turn sold them to the two other men, according to court documents.
When Henley realized that Inciardi and Kosinki were attempting to sell the long-lost manuscripts, he told them they were stolen materials, asked for them back and filed police reports. Yet, “rather than making any effort to ensure they actually had rightful ownership, the defendants responded by engaging in a years-long campaign to prevent Henley from recovering the manuscripts,” prosecutors allege.
Although prosecutors contend the unnamed writer stole the papers, in communications with the accused trio, the writer said in 2012 that he recalled “finding the material discarded in a dressing room backstage at an Eagles concert.” Later, he said he acquired them through Henley’s assistant after a stay at the musician’s Malibu home.
Now, it looks as though the 100 pages of scribbles, notes and lyrics will make their way back to Henley. “No one has the right to sell illegally obtained property or profit from the outright theft of irreplaceable pieces of musical history,” Henley’s manager, Irving Azoff, told. “These handwritten lyrics are an integral part of the legacy Don Henley has created over the course of his 50-plus-year career. We look forward to the return of Don’s property, for him and his family to enjoy and preserve for posterity.
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