Leonard Cohen recovers after collpsing onstage in Spain

By Harold Heckle, AP
Saturday, September 19, 2009

Leonard Cohen recovers from collapse

MADRID — Leonard Cohen is recovering after collapsing onstage while on tour in eastern Spain, his music company said Saturday.

The veteran poet and performer has been released from hospital after suffering from a stomach complaint, Doctor Music Concerts said in a statement.

Cohen was part-way through his song “Bird on the Wire” in Valencia when he fainted, causing the band to stop playing to rush to his aid as concertgoers watched. The concert was stopped.

A video showing Cohen kneeling down several times during the performance and then keeling over sideways during a saxophone solo has been placed on YouTube on the Web by a fan.

The Canadian-born musician, who will be 75 years-old on Monday, was taken in an ambulance to the Nueve de Octubre hospital in Valencia but released early Saturday, Barcelona-based Doctor Music Concerts said.

Cohen was due to perform the last show of his Spanish tour at the Palau Sant Jordi concert hall in northeastern Barcelona on Monday. Trucks carrying Cohen’s show had arrived at the hall on Saturday morning and were to set up as normal, a spokesman for the concert hall said.

Cohen had to come out of retirement five years ago when he discovered that most of his retirement fund had disappeared in a disputed case of mismanagement.

After leaving Spain Cohen was due to perform next at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise, Florida on Oct. 17, his Web site said.

Discussion

Kelley Lynch
December 18, 2009: 2:49 am

Green,

I’ve forwarded your post on this Blog to Phil Spector’s legal team. Fortunately, someone who reviewed Phawker’s Blog (and gathers information for serious journalists) thought you and your fellow Bloggers were crazy. Literally.

Do all of Cohen’s “fans” target minor children such as happened to my son on Phawker.com and Blogonaut’s Law Blog? Adult strangers on the internet with a minor child.

If the IRS has to do the proper and complete forensic accounting that I have requested from Cohen for ages now sobeit. Fraudulent lawsuits, rotten legal tactics, perjury, etc. are not going to force this situation to go away. No one that understands this situation thinks I’m a thief. Cohen himself gave an interview to Brian Johnson in Canada and publicly stated that he was not accusing me of theft. He is going to take the witness stand and explain that comment - in light of the “massive tax hit” that was raised in that article which, to me, goes to motive.

I reported the accusations and allegations that Cohen committed criminal tax fraud to the IRS. I think the IRS should take penalties and interest in the vicinity of $30 million seriously - or permit everyone else in America to defraud them and create precedence for that publicly. I did not respond to Cohen’s fraudulent lawsuit with bogus financials attached because I view it as an attempt to obstruct justice and cover up criminal activity. I am also awaiting the opinions of the IRS with respect to the entities and, specifically, with respect to the fact that I was not a trustee (constructive or otherwise) on Blue Mist Touring Company, Inc. and/or Traditional Holdings, LLC. I also want the IRS to advise me why they believe I was made an illegal partner on LC Investments, LLC and why I was issued illegal K1s. I was never a partner. Perhaps the IRS would like to explain Cohen’s offer, to me, of 50% community property. They should be well aware that my former accountant, who witnessed this, has said that he will take the witness stand to confirm that offer. I also want the IRS to explain why they think a California court had jurisdiction here. I had already reported the tax fraud so, from my perspective, it was a federal matter.

Green, as usual, lies through its teeth. The article is incorrect.

Why doesn’t Green out itself rather than hiding behind anonymous posts like the coward liar that it is?

Kelley Lynch

kellygreen Says:
September 21st, 2009 at 10:47 pm
The article is correct: Mr. Cohen’s funds were, indeed, mismanaged; and eventhough Kelley Lynch is not identified in the article, she, once again, chooses to “out” herself–it’s almost as though she thinks others will forget she is a thief who should be in prison. Apparently, Lynch forgets she opted to neither defend, dispute, nor refute the charges against her. The case has been litigated–IT’S OVER–and Mr. Cohen was awarded >$7M.


Kelley Lynch
October 22, 2009: 6:39 pm

Cohen and his fans should get real:

cyberterroristwatch.blogspot.com/2009/09/kelleys-final-version-letter-to-alan.html


Roberto
September 23, 2009: 10:42 am

Harold,

According to the $7.3 million California judgment dated May 12, 2006 in favor of Leonard Cohen and against Kelley Lynch for theft from and mismanagement of his estate (Cohen v. Lynch, Los Angeles Superior Court Case No. BC 338322) you have it right.

Lynch failed to respond to the lawsuit, and unless and until she can obtain an order in the California action setting the judgment aside (and obtain permission to file a cross-complaint in that action), she is precluded from suing Cohen on theories arising out of their former business relationship under California’s “compulsory cross-complaint rule” as well as by the legal principles of collateral estopple and bar.

In addition, any suit against Cohen by Lynch at this or some future point would probably be barred by the applicable statute of limitations—since she has been threatening to counter sue Cohen ever since the judgment was entered against her in May of 2006 but never has.

In any event the point of the story is Cohen, not Lynch, and I wish Cohen a speedy recovery from his Spanish bout with food poisoning


Roberto
September 23, 2009: 10:33 am

Harold,

According to the $7.3 million California judgment dated May 12, 2006 in favor of Leonard Cohen and against Kelley Lynch for theft from and mismanagement of his estate (Cohen v. Lynch, Los Angeles Superior Court Case No. BC 338322) you have it right.

Lynch failed to respond to the lawsuit, and unless and until she can obtain an order in the California action setting the judgment aside (and obtain permission to file a cross-complaint in that action), she is precluded from suing Cohen on theories arising out of their former business relationship under California’s “compulsory cross-complaint rule” as well as by the legal principles of collateral estopple and bar.

In addition, any suit against Cohen by Lynch at this or some future point would probably be barred by the applicable statute of limitations—since she has been threatening to counter sue Cohen ever since the judgment was entered against her in May of 2006 but never has.

In any event the point of the story is Cohen, not Lynch, and I wish Cohen a speedy recovery from his Spanish bout with food poisoning.


kellygreen
September 21, 2009: 10:47 pm

The article is correct: Mr. Cohen’s funds were, indeed, mismanaged; and eventhough Kelley Lynch is not identified in the article, she, once again, chooses to “out” herself–it’s almost as though she thinks others will forget she is a thief who should be in prison. Apparently, Lynch forgets she opted to neither defend, dispute, nor refute the charges against her. The case has been litigated–IT’S OVER–and Mr. Cohen was awarded >$7M.


Kelley Lynch
September 19, 2009: 1:24 pm

Harold,

I took nothing from Cohen. He stole from me - millions. Get your story straight. I have also not disputed the case yet. I went to the IRS and reported the fact that I was told, by my advisers, that he committed criminal tax fraud. He also targeted my children. His fans think this is acceptable. Hopefully, my jury will not. I doubt Phil Spector thinks it was acceptable that Cohen appears to have perjured himself in his grand jury.

Kelley Lynch


sturgess66
September 19, 2009: 12:34 pm

Leonard is apparently feeling much better today after suffering from a nasty case of food poisoning. He *will* be performing in Barcelona on September 21st. But, the information in the article above is incorrect. Leonard will also be performing on September 24 in Tel Aviv, Israel, Ramat Gan Stadium. This will be the last concert of this overseas tour - and then he returns to the USA.

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