Led Zeppelin Scary Death Threats From Lawsuit Revealed

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In a new Philly Mag interview, Francis Malofiy discussed suing Led Zeppelin. Malofiy is representing Spirit guitarist Randy Wolfe, better known as Randy California, whose trust brought the copyright infringement lawsuit over the song “Taurus.”

NBC News reported in September that The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco overturned a 2016 jury verdict that found that the British band did not steal any original music from “Taurus,” a 1968 track by the Los Angeles band Spirit.

Francis described getting death threats and now having to carry a gun because of it.

Hidden behind an unmarked door on the basement floor of a nondescript office building in Media, the law firm of Francis Alexander LLC is a pretty punk-rock operation. The neighbors are an anger management counselor and a medical marijuana dispensary. “I think of us as pirates sinking big ships,”

Malofiy, who’s 41, brags. Given the sheer number of death threats he says he’s received from apoplectic Zep fans, the fact that mysterious cars seem to follow him in the night, and his claim to have found GPS trackers stuck to the bottom of his car, the precise location of his offices remains a closely guarded secret. Failing that, he has a license to carry, and most days, he leaves the house packing a .38-caliber Smith & Wesson.

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