Vicky Cornell, the widow of Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell, who died in 2017, is suing the band for the second time. According to TMZ she claims to receive only a fraction of the music royalties she should actually receive.
Cornell states that the other three band members offered her $ 300,000 (nearly $ 250,000), the amount Chris Cornell would actually receive if he were still alive. According to Vicky Cornell, this is far too little.
The singer’s widow says that $ 16 million has been offered for the rights to Soundgarden’s music. In that case, she would have to receive $ 4 million. That is why she demands that the judge review the value of the music again so that the money can be distributed fairly.
The band has responded to Cornell’s indictment and says it has been working for some time to reach a settlement. The amount currently being discussed would in any case be higher than the 300,000 euros that Vicky Cornell says he will be offered.
The parties have already sued each other
Both parties have been at odds for some time. In 2019, Vicky Cornell sued the band and their business executive for trying to withhold hundreds of thousands of dollars in royalties.
Six months later, the band members sued Cornell for allegedly using some of the millions of dollars in donations from a benefit concert for personal purposes. These charges the band later dropped.
However, there is still disagreement about the rights to seven unreleased songs that Chris Cornell made just before his death in 2017. Vicky Cornell claims she owns these rights, the band members claim they own them. This case is still ongoing.
The singer, who took his own life in 2017 at the age of 52, became world famous in the 1990s with the band Soundgarden and founded the ‘supergroup’ Temple of the Dog, in which musicians from Soundgarden and Pearl Jam played. . Later he also played in the band Audioslave.
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