As drama continues to circle around the Mötley Crüe camp, due to guitarist Mick Mars’ lawsuit against his former bandmates, and the band’s response to his allegations (via their attorney), now the band’s manager, Allen Kovac, shares his observations with Variety magazine.
According to the publication, Kovac, the band’s manager of 29 years, was so angered by an interview Mars gave Variety, he agreed to go on record addressing what he believes are the musician’s most scurrilous accusations…
…Kovac says Mars is coming out with a list of allegations “to gain leverage in a smear campaign on Mötley. He’s attacked the band, and he’s done it in a slanderous way, with false accusations and misrepresenting the facts to the fans. Mick is not the victim. The victims are Mötley Crüe and the brand, which Mick is so prideful of.”
But, adds the manager, who says he has always liked and gotten along well with Mars over the last three decades: “What’s upsetting to me is not Mick, but his representatives, who have guided Mick to say and do harmful things to the brand he cares about so much, Mötley Crüe. He has a degenerative disease and people are taking advantage of him. It’s called elder abuse.”
He continues, “Mick’s representatives have no idea what they’ve created, but I’ve stopped the band from speaking about this, so they’re not gonna turn the fans against Mick. But I am going to make sure that people understand that Mick hasn’t been treated badly. In fact, he was treated better than...
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