Slipknot and Joey Jordison’s Estate Settle Lawsuit
An ongoing legal battle between Slipknot and the estate of the late Joey Jordison has come to a close, as both sides reached a settlement, though exact details were not publicly revealed.
The whole thing started when Steamroller, LLC filed a lawsuit last June where they claimed that the band was trying to make money off of Jordison’s likeness. never gave back about 22 of Jordison’s items, even though the band allegedly promised to return them. Additionally, they took umbrage with the fact that the band was promoting 2021’s The End, So Far as a tribute to the fallen drummer. Both Corey Taylor and M. Shawn “Clown” Crahan were named as defendants.
“After abruptly kicking Jordison out of Slipknot in 2013, Taylor and Crahan expressly promised in a written agreement to return all of Jordison’s belongings in exchange for Jordison’s promise to release certain claims against them.
“The agreement contained a non-exclusive list of broad categories of items that [Taylor and Crahan] represented were in their possession and that they would return to Jordison. [Taylor and Crahan] purported to comply with the agreement by returning certain items to Jordison but, unbeknownst to Jordison, [they] had executed the agreement with no intention of performing their obligations thereunder, and knowingly concealed from Jordison that they possessed numerous other items belonging to Jordison that they never returned to him.”
Going back to the items, the lawsuit claimed that the missing items were then displayed at Knotfest as part of a traveling Slipknot museum. That use flew in the face of the band’s previous promise to return all of Jordison’s personal items to the estate. There were also some pretty personal claims that Jordison’s firing was considered callous and that both Crahan and Taylor treated the drummer with “disdain.”
“The callousness of Jordison’s firing and other mistreatment at the hands of Crahan and Taylor have been widely reported and criticized by fans of the band. Since the 1990s, Jordison had dedicated his life to making Slipknot a metal sensation, from which Crahan and Taylor handsomely profited. It made no sense why Crahan and Taylor would treat Jordison with such disdain, especially in light of Jordison’s declining health.”
According to a report from Blabbermouth, the newly reached settlement officially ends the dispute.
