Leonard Cohen is "unlikely" to recover $9.5 million that a court has ruled was stolen from him by his ex-manager, because she's very hard to track down. Kelly Lynch, who worked for Cohen for seventeen years, is accused of plundering the singer's retirement fund while he was living in a Buddhist monastery in the 1990s. Although a court last week found in Cohen's favour in the dispute, Lynch has proved to be elusive, with police aided attempts to recover photographs and memorabilia held by the former manager which a previous court hearing ruled belonged to the singer proving unsuccessful.
Cohen's lawyer Scott Edelman said of Ms Lynch last week: "She's hard to get in touch with. I don't know where she lives and I don't have a phone number for her. We don't know what she did with the money. But she knows what's going on because she leaves me with phone messages at all hours".
Meanwhile Edelman confirmed that Cohen had reached an out of court settlement with tax expert and lawyer Richard Westin, who was also in legal dispute with the singer over the missing monies. Details of that settlement have not been released, although Edelman confirmed an agreement had been reached, adding that Cohen was "glad" that part of the legal proceedings have been completed, adding that his client would "prefer to spend his time on creative endeavours" than on continued legal wranglings.