Soulfly frontman Max Cavalera has experienced first hand the consequence of actually telling all in his book, ‘My Bloody Roots: From Sepultura To Soulfly And Beyond‘. Back in 2014 his former sister in law, Monika Bass Cavalera, filed suit against him for libel after reading the disparaging things he had to say of her in the book. Late last month (October) she won that suit, though not for the one million Brazillian reals she had originally hoped for. Instead, the court have ordered Max to pay her roughly $50,000 Brazillian reals (roughly $13,160 USD) for moral damages and to cover her legal fees.
Cavalera also has to publicly recant his comments in three Brazilian newspapers as well as part of the ruling. Among the comments that got Max in hot water are:
“I never liked Igor‘s wife [Monika.] She was a bitch. They’re finally divorced now, thank God. When we first met her, she tried to pick me up, but I didn’t want anything to do with her. A couple of weeks later, she was with my brother, which I always felt was kinda weird, like he was the second-best option or something. That always bugged me. But he fell in love with her anyway.”
“There was something about the way she talked to him [Igor] that always bothered me. She’d say stuff like, ‘My father is rich: he can provide me with a big house and a great life. You’d better do better than that.’ In front of everybody. I couldn’t stand her, man. I still can’t. I found out later that she became [Sepultura‘s] manager and was the person who wanted and took Gloria‘s job. And she was a dental assistant! How does a dental assistant become a manager? Unbelievable.”
[via Blabbermouth]
