“Mick Mars, the 71-year-old guitarist born Robert Deal, announced in October he would retire from touring with the headlining hard rock group Mötley Crüe, citing a chronic ailment stemming from a spinal disease.
“On Thursday of this week, as reported by the New York Times, Mars filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court, accusing the other three members of the band of pushing him out of the organization and cutting him off from future profits.
“According to Mars’s claim, the remaining members of Mötley Crüe, lead singer Vince Neil (born Vince Wharton), drummer (and inadvertent adult film star) Tommy Lee (born Thomas Bass), and bassist-principal songwriter Nikki Sixx (born Frank Feranna Jr.), responded to his decision by holding an emergency shareholders’ meeting with the principal members of the organization, and decided to throw him out of the band, remove him as a director of the corporation, and take away his shares.”
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