Thanks to some apparent clerical errors, Miss May I frontman Levi Benton lost everything during the recording of the bands 2014 album, “Rise Of The Lion“. He told Altpress.com of what led to the unsavory situation:
“I was the first person in my family to really buy a house. I was really excited. Miss May I‘s former business manager made some paperwork mistakes, so the bank sold the house out from under us. It was a nightmare. I lost everything, including three years of savings. I bought the house in 2012 and it turned out the bank was missing a form from 2010.
On paper, it looked like Miss May I didn’t exist. We were in the studio making Rise Of The Lion and I was calling lawyers trying to fix it. I tried to at least get my money back and that fell through. All of my money was gone. It was like being in high school again.”
The home Benton purchased had rental units, allowing him to somewhat stay float and divert his attention to his clothing line Vursa Ltd., who at the time were in the midst of launching a retail store, he said of that:
“The property was bringing in income [from the rental units] so we were able to set up a storefront with that revenue. And then we lost the house a month before the store opened. We suddenly had to work twice as hard because we had the store.
That’s why we didn’t hire anybody to work there. It was just [my wife and I]. It was stressful. We had to move everything into the store so the backroom was just full of crap. We were working 12 to 14 hour days just trying to get everything done and run the store.”
Expectedly, since then Benton has taken a more hands on approach to finances and the group have hired different business managers.
