Lana Del Rey says L.A. thief stole laptop with unreleased music: ‘Please don’t listen’
Lana Del Rey says L.A. thief stole laptop with unreleased music: ‘Please don’t listen’
LAS VEGAS — Lana Del Rey says she’s been cheated out of $27,000 worth of unreleased music by her teenage stalker who she says stole a laptop with thousands of dollars worth of music and deleted all of it, according to court documents.
The 27-year-old singer’s lawyer calls the allegations a crock.
“Ms. Del Rey and her attorneys will offer that the laptop she lost does not include any of the music Ms. Del Rey lost, or any of the songs that have been purchased and lost by Ms. Del Rey’s ex-boyfriend and the Los Angeles Police Department,” lawyer Thomas Segal said.
“It does not, in fact, contain any music for which Ms. Del Rey could receive any payment,” he said.
Segal said both his client and her attorney are “enthusiastic” about the possibility of re-creating and re-releasing the unreleased music.
“Ms. Del Rey has provided multiple recordings of music she has completed, and it will be the attorney’s contention that these recordings are in fact unreleased, unrevleased by Ms. Del Rey, and unreleased as to any song that is known to exist,” Segal said.
“Ms. Del Rey’s attorney will make it clear, if appropriate, that the songs in question have been and will be released by other means.”
He said Del Rey’s manager, who filed the suit in Las Vegas District Court, did not return messages seeking comment.
The attorney was also seeking a court order to stop her from “any further interference with the possession and use of the laptop” and to have Del Rey and her manager pay the $27,000.
The suit states that Del Rey “filed the [criminal] complaint against her ex-boyfriend… on or about April 19, 2014 for the crime of Grand Theft Larceny.”
The complaint says Del Rey and her manager signed a non-disclosure agreement with “the victim of the theft for which they were sued.”
The suit said Del Rey’s