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Jack met his girlfriend 8 years ago before he became a famous bass player.  Now she’s suing him because he recently purchased a house and didn’t put her name on the title.

She says she supported him for 8 years financially and they had agreed to divide his spoils when he finally made the big time.  Until then, she bought him everything (clothes, bass strings, alcohol, etc…) he needed to become a big rock star bass player.  Last year he made enough to buy a house and she was left off the title.  A clear violation of the 50-50 split agreement, she says.

He says there was no such agreement.  She was indeed once his girlfriend, and he let her move into his house in 2007  but after a year, he asked her to leave.  She refuses to leave and refuses to return his vintage collection of 300+ vinyl lps.  He evicts her.  She files a lawsuit asking for 100K in damages and her half of the proceeds of the “partnership” assets.

According to the legal papers he filed in response to her lawsuit:

“Only now, since Mr. Lawrence’s success with his band The Raconteurs, does she seek to reap the benefits of an alleged partnership,” the filing reads. “Had Mr. Lawrence not found any measure of economic success in his music career, there can be no doubt but that Ms. Craig would never have sought to enforce a partnership claim so that she could share the burdens of the alleged partnership’s losses.”

That’s a lot of common-law vinyl.  Tennessee doesn’t recognize common law marriages and although Jack and his ex-girlfriend hooked up while they lived in Kentucky, that state doesn’t recognize common law marriages either.  Unless girlfriend can find something in writing, I’m betting on Jack.

Good luck getting those albums back, though!