An attorney for an auction house planning to put items from rocker Tom Petty on the block has said it will investigate claims by his family that the items were stolen.
Mark S. Zaid told TMZ that RR Auction has been cooperating wth the Petty family “from the moment they reached out to us just days ago and will happily continue to do so without unnecessary hostile threats of litigation.
We take theft allegations such as these very seriously. Indeed, in the years I have represented the company, we have never failed to reach an amicable resolution when on the rare occasion items presented by our consignors turned out to have provenance concerns.” The RR Auction house was planning an auction of personal property of Petty’s.
A statement from the family said it “firmly believes” the auction items have “been outright stolen from a secured archive based on prior knowledge, staff observations and documentation.
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