Johnny Ramone’s widow claims plot to sabotage band’s legacy, leak ‘compromising’ footage of her to push her out of business

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dated Joey years before marrying Johnny, contends the brother, Mitchel Hyman, just wants to push her out of Ramones Productions Inc., the company in charge of the band’s work. “Their main objective is to torment Ms.

Ramone until she agrees to sell her interests in RPI. Regrettably, [they] appear willing to allow the band’s legacy to decay, in order to benefit their own self-interest,” she said in legal papers.Instead of guarding the band’s brand and helping to grow it by bringing in new fans, Cummings-Ramone, 63, claims Hyman, and director David Frey, have sabotaged business deals and “effectively shut down” Ramones Productions Inc.Hyman, a musician who goes by the stage name Mickey Leigh, and Frey “refuse to engage with the Ramones’ record label, its social media creative agency, its merchandising partners, or its long-term business managers” while they “regularly create internecine disputes and unnecessary work that drains the company of funds,” the widow contends in a Jan.

19 Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit. Cummings-Ramone said she’s spent more than $500,000 fighting the pair in various legal disputes.She and Hyman have been banging heads for years, including at least three expensive rounds of arbitration over everything from her use of the Ramones name to Hyman and Frey’s bid to “unilaterally and covertly” make a biopic about the band without her input.“To permit defendants alone to tell the authoritative story of the Ramones would be an injustice to the band and its legacy,” Cummings-Ramone insists in the litigation.