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Jack White Denies Making Threats
Jack White may have pleaded guilty to roughing up Von Bondies frontman Jason Stollsteimer, but he's not copping to pinning an angry note to his rival's front door using a knife.
The alleged poison pen letter was brought up in testimony Tuesday at the trial of a lawsuit brought against the White Stripes by producer Jim Diamond, who worked on the band's first two albums and, as such, claims he is entitled to royalties.
Diamond is listed as co-producer on the band's self-titled first album, released in 1999, and as sound mixer on De Stijl, released in 2000, and claims he played a pivotal role in creating the band's signature sound. However, he never signed a contract with the band and both Jack White and Meg White have denied he is owed any additional fees for his work on the albums, for which they paid him $35 an hour at the time.
But back to Stollsteimer. In something of an aside to the case at hand, White and Stollsteimer testified about their 2003 fight inside Detroit rock club the Magic Stick, which occurred after they allegedly fell out over the way White produced the 2001 Von Bondies album, Lack of Communication.
Stollsteimer told the federal court that about two years before the altercation, he had discovered an obscenity-filled note stuck to his front door with a knife.
According to his testimony, the note, reading in part, "That's the last time I help you out," was scrawled across a magazine article in which White felt Stollsteimer had slighted him by downplaying his role in producing the Von Bondies album.
White called the notion that he had attached a note to Stollsteimer's door with a knife "a laughable lie."
The Stollsteimer incident was apparently brought up in Diamond's case as a means of demonstrating that White has a supposed history of threatening his associates.
When asked in court if he remembered threatening to ruin Diamond's career in the music industry if he went forward with the suit, the Detroit News quoted White as replying, "I believe I said this was going to ruin his reputation, if he did something like this."
On Tuesday, Meg White also took the stand and testified that though Diamond is listed as a co-producer on the band's first album, he should not have been and that Jack White deserved all the credit for producing the album.
The trial in Diamond's suit against the indie rock outfit began Monday and is expected to last about a week.
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