Hendrix family's court fight begins

[icymist]

Tuesday, June 29, 2004

Hendrix family's court fight begins
Brother battles stepsister, cousin over his father's living trust

By MIKE LEWIS
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER

Janie Hendrix bullied her father into control of the Jimi Hendrix estate and spent lavishly on herself with company money, including bonuses, home loans, cars and trips to luxury spas, plaintiffs' attorneys argued yesterday in opening statements in the trial over control of the estate.

"Janie lived a very good life, but other beneficiaries haven't seen a dime," said Robert Curran, the lawyer who is representing Leon Hendrix, 56.

Hendrix, the brother of the late rock guitarist, is suing the Hendrix estate, claiming that Janie unfairly influenced her now-deceased father, Al Hendrix, into carving him out of the will.

Over a few years, Janie, 43, spent $1.7 million on personal expenses with her corporate credit card, ringing up $45,000 in one month, Curran said in his statement. In one year, she visited the tony Gene Juarez spa "more than 100 times," he said.

Leon wants the will and trust voided and a new one written installing him as an heir.

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~sigh~ Another family fight of a great musician over the money! Makes me want to retch.

[Deja Q]

1. As long as the successor doesn't charge asinine rates for his music to be

used in TV programs released on DVD, I could care less who wins this whinging fight.

You can imagine which example I am thinking of. It was part of Hendrix's "Fire", though had an effect placed on it so it sounded distorted. Hendrix' estate wanted $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ for it, so the BBC dropped it and used some generic music instead. Pity, "Fire" had fit in so well in that episode's direction (Graeme Harper was a genius)...

Fleetwood Mac were ass-holes about a similar 30 second clip of a pre-fame song they made... BBC had to drop that tune as well...

Ditto for the Beatles, and that's for more than just one reference.

WTF is it with these washed up rich celebs anyway? They were big at one point; long ago. They are artists. Why do they have to be such grotesue pigs when artists of another medium see vision in the work they made so long ago?