And no, it wasn’t  because he had “Rio” stuck in his head for two weeks straight.  In 2000, a Los Angeles man sued Duran Duran because the band’s website had displayed his phone number to call for tickets and merchandise. 

Cornell Zachary (one of those guys with two first names, or a first name for a last name and a last name for a first name, as it were) was 56 or 57 at the time of the incident.  He had been assigned the Los Angeles phone number about a year before it mistakenly appeared on the Duran Duran website, and rather than changing his phone number, he sued the band.

Zachary complained that his phone rang around the clock.  He said he literally received millions of phone calls.  These phone calls caused him to have elevated blood pressure, which in turn made him a stroke risk and very..well…stressed out.  Simon LeBon and Nick Rhodes were named in the lawsuit, though I doubt they had anything to do with the typo on their website.

The most frustrating thing about this?  I cannot, for the life of me, find out what happened in this lawsuit.  I can find three different internet articles from 2000 that talk about this wacky lawsuit, but nothing is out there about the result.  Did he win?  He was suing for a hefty sum – in the millions. 

The suit was filed July 28, 2000.  That’s almost a decade ago.  Zachary sued, I found out about it, and now I am impotent with ignorance.  If you have any news or updates about this case, please comment!

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