Tony Bennett’s two daughters are suing their brother, alleging he mishandled and did not disclose a few of their father’s belongings in his function as trustee of the late singer’s property.
The lawsuit filed Wednesday in New York by Antonia and Johanna Bennett accuses D’Andrea “Danny” Bennett of not accounting for all the proceeds from this 12 months’s sale of Tony Bennett’s catalog and sure picture rights to the model growth agency Iconoclast.
The court docket submitting claims that “it stays unclear what music belongings (and different property) had been or weren’t bought as a part of the deal” as a result of the sisters “haven’t been supplied with numerous particulars of the transaction regardless of repeated requests.”
Danny Bennett, who was the singer’s supervisor and runs the household belief, didn’t reply Thursday to an e mail and cellphone message looking for touch upon the lawsuit. One other brother, Daegal “Dae” Bennett, and Tony’s widow, Susan Benedetto, had been additionally named within the lawsuit.
The lawsuit additional alleges that Danny Bennett “obtained private advantages for himself and his firm” from transactions, together with the sale of memorabilia, made on behalf of Tony Bennett, the household belief and Benedetto Arts LLC.
