Capitol claims the owner of a music-sharing site fraudulently hid millions owed to the label from a copyright case about MP3s.
At the center of Capitol’s allegations is a complex property deal in 2016 involving a parcel of land in Palm Beach County called “Hogarcito,” which the label described to a judge as “a Mediterranean-style house built in 1921 by cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post.” Post later went on to build Mar-a-Lago, the nearby mansion now owned by former Pres. Donald Trump.
As of 2022, Capitol says that judgment remains “almost entirely unsatisfied.” But it’s not for a lack of effort. The label quickly filed lawsuits in California and Florida state courts, alleging that the Hogarcito deals amounted to a fraudulent transfer of assets and demanding that the profits be turned over to satisfy the judgment; it also filed similar claims in a federal lawsuit in California. For procedural reasons, those previous cases appear to have been supplanted in favor of the new Florida case, which was filed March 11.
“These measures were intended to, and had the effect of, hindering, delaying and defrauding plaintiffs,” wrote Capitol’s attorneys, who hail from the law firms Fox Rothschild LLP and Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP. “This was because, among other reasons, public records do not reveal what natural person has the economic or beneficial interest in a land trust, so a search of Florida land conveyance records would not have revealed that Ossenmacher … had an interest.
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