Duke Ellington Lawsuit
August 13th, 2009 by Hannah
Thirty two years after his death, jazz legend Duke Ellington’s name was suddenly being used to sell a high end brand of cognac which has made his family all sorts of mad. Duke’s grandson has filed a federal lawsuit in New York, claiming that the people responsible for the liqueur called ‘Duke Ellington XO Cognac’ in 2006 never got the proper permission to use the singer’s name and signature on their product. In the documents, the Ellington estate claims that the people behind the cognac “once attempted to negotiate with [the estate] … but no agreement was ever reached between the parties.” Now, the family wants the company to stop selling the cognac and they also want all the profits that have been earned from previous sales.
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