Don Henley has testified that what he calls a “poor decision” led to authorities finding drugs and a naked 16-year-old girl suffering from an overdose at his Los Angeles home in 1980 and spurred the Eagles co-founder’s arrest
Don Henley was confronted in a New York courtroom Monday about a seamy episode from his past: his 1980 arrest after authorities said they found drugs and a naked 16-year-old girl suffering from an overdose at the Eagles co-founder’s Los Angeles home.
Henley was testifying at a criminal trial over what prosecutors say was the theft of handwritten draft lyrics to “Hotel California” and other Eagles hits by collectibles dealers.
But a prosecutor asked about the singer and drummer’s November 1980 arrest early on, apparently to get ahead of defense lawyers, who previously indicated that they planned to question the 76-year-old about his memory of the era and his lifestyle at the time.
The arrest was briefly reported on at the time, and it gained only a passing mention during the recent #MeToo movement, when many such incidents involving public figures were reexamined.
