Tom Waits' former manager Herb Cohen has brought a libel lawsuit against journalist Barney Hoskyns, and his publisher Random House, over allegations of criminality in Hoskyns' book 'Lowside Of The Road, A Life Of Tom Waits', published in May his year.
Cohen is suing for $1 million over the book, which apparently claims that during his period of management - 1971 to 1982 - Cohen robbed from Waits, and that the artist sued Cohen and his company over fraudulent accounting practices. Hoskyns also suggests in the biography that Cohen stole money from other clients, and he also says these claims are untrue and defamatory.