Bob Dylan and Universal Music Group are being sued for $7.25 million.
The legendary singer/songwriter sold the rights to his entire song catalog - which includes tunes that span his 60-year career - to the label in December for over $300 million, but Claudia Levy, the wife of the late Jacques Levy, has claimed her spouse's estate has not received any money from the deal.
Levy - who died in 2004 - co-wrote seven of the nine songs on Dylan's 1976 album Desire, and Claudia insisted in a claim made to Manhattan's Supreme Court that his estate is owed 35 per cent "of any and all income earned by the compositions" including "35 per cent of the purchase price paid to the Dylan defendants."
The suit highlighted the fact Desire topped the Billboard Pop Album chart for five weeks and the double platinum-selling record was ranked 174th on Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
Levy's company and his wife asked for their "rightful share" of the sale to UMG around a week after it was completed last month, but the Like a Rolling Stone hitmaker and his companies have refused to pay out, the court documents allege.
And the court papers claimed the refusal followed a pattern of Dylan not giving Levy songwriting credit throughout the years, including in 2019's Martin Scorsese film Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story.
The suit said: "The Dylan defendants have engaged in a civilly wrong pattern and history of intentionally and maliciously ignoring and disregarding plaintiff's rights, including those to income and any and all revenue generated by the compositions, including the subject buy-out of the catalog sale."
And Claudia's lawyer, Richard Golub, told the New York Post newspaper: "There is a great creative history between Jacques and Bob."
A lawyer acting on behalf of the Blowin' in the Wind singer insisted there was no money owed to the estate.
Orin Snyder said in a statement: "This lawsuit is a sad attempt to unfairly profit off of the recent catalog sale. The plaintiffs have been paid everything they are owed. We are confident that we will prevail. And when we do, we will hold plaintiffs and their counsel responsible for bringing this meritless case."
A spokesperson for Universal Music Group declined to comment.
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