'The ultimate betrayal': more details emerge in Hall & Oates lawsuit

Earlier DU thread: Daryl Hall Gets Restraining Order Against John Oates in Secretive Legal Battle

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Source: The Guardian

‘The ultimate betrayal’: more details emerge in Hall & Oates lawsuit

In court filing, Daryl Hall alleges ‘surreptitious’ plan by John Oates to sell song catalogue, with Oates calling the claims ‘inflammatory, outlandish, and inaccurate’

Ben Beaumont-Thomas
@ben_bt
Thu 30 Nov 2023 05.12 EST
Last modified on Thu 30 Nov 2023 05.14 EST

More details have emerged in the spat between pop duo Hall & Oates, after Daryl Hall filed a lawsuit and restraining order against John Oates last week.

The initial lawsuit was sealed, and only scant details were revealed days later, showing that it concerned a dispute over Oates’s reported plan to sell his share of the pair’s publishing to Primary Wave Music, the company that has acquired numerous song catalogues in recent years by artists including Prince, Stevie Nicks, Burt Bacharach and many more.

In a declaration filed at a Nashville court on Wednesday, Hall laid out his accusations against Oates, saying the planned sale was a “completely clandestine and bad faith move”, that was in “blatant violation” of longstanding business agreements between the pair. He alleged that Oates and the trustees of his estate spent several months “falsely contending” that they wanted to continue owning their share of the duo’s Whole Oats Enterprises (WOE) company, but then “surreptitiously sought to sell half of the WOE assets without obtaining my written approval”. Hall described this as “the ultimate partnership betrayal”.

A judge issued a temporary restraining order against a sale of WOE assets to Primary Wave, meaning that the case will have to enter arbitration before any sale can go ahead.

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Original Guardian link (registration required): https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/nov/30/the-ultimate-betrayal-more-details-emerge-in-hall-oates-lawsuit