Brasswell Gallery Sued Over Lennon's Abbey Road Suit

The Associated Press is reporting that Braswell Gallery has been sued overt the sale of the white suit worn be John Lennon on the cover of the Abbey Road album.  The consignor owes money to a landlord, the attorneys discovered news of the sale, warned Braswell of the judgment and are now attempting to settle the dispute by collecting partial proceeds from Braswell Gallery.

The Associated Press reports

The seller's former landlord has sued the gallery that auctioned the late Beatle's suit for $46,000, trying to get at the proceeds to satisfy a rent debt.

Braswell Galleries was told before the Jan. 1 sale that a court had determined in 2009 that seller Biond Fury — a psychic and memorabilia collector — owed more than $21,000 in rent for his former Manhattan apartment, according to landlord Mark Arrow's lawsuit, filed Tuesday in a Manhattan state court. Arrow's lawyers say they told the Norwalk, Conn.-based gallery not to go through with the sale, and that the gallery should now have to fork over at least $21,463.

Arrow had been unable to collect the rent debt from Fury, but the prospects brightened when he learned of the coming auction from a newspaper report last month, said Arrow lawyer Adam Leitman Bailey.

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