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 VIRGIN RECORDS RENEGING ON VERBAL AGREEMENT TO PAY PREPARATION AND TRANSPORTATION COSTS OF BODIES OF R & B SINGER AALIYAH AND EIGHT OTHERS AFTER PLANE CRASH Sun Aug 11 2002 11:15:41 ET New York - Virgin Records, the former label of R & B singer Aaliyah, is reneging on a verbal agreement to pay the costs of preparation and transport of the bodies of Aaliyah and eight members of her entourage who died in a small-plane crash last August, TIME reports. Butlers' Funeral Homes and Crematorium in Nassau, the Bahamas, is out $68,000. "Virgin has indicated to us that they will not honor the agreement," says Loretta Turner, the funeral-home director who has even appealed for help to the U.S. Embassy in Nassau, to no avail. Robert Spragg, an attorney who is representing Aaliyah's parents, Michael and Diane Haughton, in a lawsuit against Virgin and other defendants stemming from the crash, says the Haughtons were also told by Virgin executives that they would be reimbursed for their funeral expenses, but have received nothing. The record label (a division of British music giant EMI) has been in financial straits since Aaliyah's death, and the executives who allegedly made the promises, former EMI chief executive Ken Berry and his wife, former Virgin vice-chairman Nancy Berry, have left the company, TIME reports. "We worked 24/7 to get the bodies out as expeditiously as possible. We had to bring in extra staff. People worked on their day off," Turner tells TIME. There has not been "one word of thanks to anyone," she says. Developing... |
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