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You're right - it is a horrible thing to say - regardless of whether it's true or not


The "unofficial" story is that he had some 14 year old fan-groupie over and when she didn't want to do what he wanted her to do, he beat the shit out of her while force feeding her drugs which almost killed her.

The "official" story (doctored by their management for the media) is that she was a 16 year old prostitute who ingested too much drugs.


If you care to look through enough Google to find it, you probably will.
But the story I read was so disgusting it made me sick to my stomach.

I thought later it was just a bunch of BS. I forgot about it for a while until a visit to LA to see Richard Chamberlin. While there I visited a lawyer friend of mine who lives in LA. .He considers the 'unofficial' version closer to the truth. So now his songs give me the creeps.


Anyway, I think you guys should make your own minds up.

Here's some captions with links. The "Ben Stiller" one suggests the 'unofficial' version isn't an isolated incident. .

The early samples of Henley's album containsome striking ballads, but the main tone is even more aggressive musicallyand biting lyrically than most of his work with the Eagles. It's as ifhe were trying to exorcise some of the anger and pain of 1980.

One especially biting track is titled "Nobody'sBusiness," an apparent reference to a 1980 arrest for cocaine possession.With the hint offered in the song title, you don't expect Henley to commenton the much-publicized incident, but he did say, "I was at the bottom ofthe barrel emotionally when that happened. What really happened never reallycame out and I don't really care to talk about it. But I will say this:I feel like what I do on record and on stage is everybody's property becauseI'm in show business, but what I do in my own house-as long as I'm nothurting anybody-is just like the song says: nobody's business."

from:

http://www.eaglesfans.com/info/articles/the_long_run_is_over.html



Don Henley was arrested in 1980 in Los Angeles and charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor when paramedics were called to his home to save a naked 16-year-old girl overdosing on cocaine and Quaaludes. He was fined $2,000 and given two years' probation and ordered into a drug counseling program. (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)

from:

http://www.artistfacts.com/detail.php?id=217

The DON HENLEY File

Some quips from the ever-quotable Don Henley:

"Besides being kind of slimy and mean-spirited, it wasn't particularly funny. It didn't have any redeeming qualities. I know Ben Stiller a bit and I intend to ask him the next time I see him, 'What the hell was that supposed to be?' "

-- On a recent SNL short film featuring Will Farrell as Glenn Frey sexually torturing Stiller during a one-night stand

from:

http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Artists/H/Henley_Don/2000/05/21/pf-745953.html



Anyway regardless of the severity of what happened - the guy is a loser. .









  

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 4:57 AM, Gary Brumm <gabru@comsec.net> wrote:

 

I googled it and find no such reference to it…..just a drug bust from the 80’s. 

Where did you get your info?  This is a horrible thing to say if it isn’t true.

 

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When did this happen?

 

In a message dated 5/27/2010 11:04:32 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, unobtainiumkeys@gmail.com writes:

I suppose. Specifically I was referring to his rape and beating of a 14 year old girl.