Karina Brown of Courthousenews.com reports that Tom Scholz, a founder of the rock band Boston, says the Boston Herald defamed him in an article blaming him for the 2007 suicide of the band’s lead singer, Brad Delp. And Scholz claims Herald reporters fabricated quotes from Delp’s wife to do so.
A week after Delp committed suicide, in March 2007, the Herald published an article under the headline “Pal’s Snub Made Delp Do It,” according to Scholz’s complaint in Suffolk County Court, Boston.
He claims Herald columnists Gayle Fee and Laura Raposa – who also are named as defendants – used fabricated quotes from Delp’s widow in the article in the Herald’s “Inside Track” section.
The widow, Micki Delp, denied making two of the statements that were “quoted” in the article, Scholz says.
The column reported that Delp said her ex-husband “was driven to despair” by “a dysfunctional professional life that ultimately led to the sensitive frontman’s suicide.”