Messy: (of a situation) confused and difficult to deal with. The estate of founding / original Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison is suing the band, accusing the band of profiting from his death and failing to return his personal possessions.
Jordison formed Slipknot in 1995 with Paul Gray and Shawn “Clown” Crahan and was fired from the band in 2013, with the band citing personal reasons. Jordison later shared that he suffered from the neurological disease transverse myelitis. He died in July 2021 at 46 years old.
In the lawsuit, Jordison’s estate claims that Slipknot continued to use Jordison’s name and personal belongings “in a travelling Slipknot museum called Knotfest and lined their pockets with profit off of Jordison’s devoted fanbase”.
The suit alleges, “After abruptly kicking Jordison out of Slipknot in 2013, [Corey] 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.”
