this story dates back to december of
2003 and saw the white stripes leader
jack white
get involved in a physical altercation
with one of the members of the von
bondis
what happened stay tuned for the full
story
jack white has been credited with
helping kickstart detroit rock band von
vandy's career beginning in 2001
when he produced her debut record lack
of communication
in addition to that he had the band open
for the white stripes on tour
and he also had the von bondy's play on
his compilation album which showcased
the garage and punk bands from detroit
titled sympathetic sounds of detroit
fast forward to december of 2003 both
white and von bondy singer and guitarist
jason stolzheimer
were at the detroit magic stick club for
a record release party
for the alternative country band blanche
by this point in time there were rumors
that the relationship between
white and the von bondies had soured
some pointed to the fact that steimer
had badmouthed white in the press
regarding his production role on the
band's first album
telling real detroit weekly in 2008 what
happened was i stood up for jim diamond
of ghetto records
who produced lack of communication i
didn't own a computer that had photoshop
and when the artwork got done for the
album marcy boland was dating jack white
and did it on his computer he took it
upon himself from what i heard to put
himself as the producer
i never noticed it until i did an
interview in 2001
and they said what was it like having
jack white producing the record and i
was like what
jack introduced us to jim diamond he was
there but he didn't help write or change
anything on the production
the next day i got a death threat on my
door from him referring to white
and i gave it to the cops the next time
he saw me he beat the crap out of me
he'd remember
regarding that death threat stolzdimer
discussed in that interview
more information about it came out in
the 2008 lawsuit in which producer jim
diamond
sued the white stripes over royalties
for the band's first two albums
stolsteimer explained the threat he
received from white saying he saw a note
stuck to his door
with a knife in it that held up the
magazine interview stolsteimer did in
which he criticized the white stripes
frontman
according to stoltzdimer the note had
the line that's the last time i help you
out written across it
white for his part laughed off the claim
saying it was and i quote
laughable that he left the note so let's
get back to the events of the detroit
club in 2003.
according to stoltzdimer white wanted to
speak with him at the club
but when the front man refused he
claimed white reacted angrily and threw
stolzdeimer to the ground and punched
him several times in the face
stoltzdimer claimed to have suffered
bruising to his right eye a torn retina
which required surgery and a bloody nose
while white supposedly had cuts to his
left hand in court white confessed that
he had confronted stoltzdimer about the
negative statement the guitarist made
about him in the press
white would insist that he fought back
in self-defense after stoltzdimer threw
him to the floor and began choking him
after police completed a 10-day
investigation they asked white to turn
himself into the police
which he did he got his mug shot taken
and was released on a 100
bond three months after the incident
white initially pled not guilty to the
charges of misdemeanor aggravated
assault
and if convicted white could have faced
a fine of up to a thousand dollars and a
year in prison
eventually the guitarist and singer
would reverse his plea
and plead guilty so he could take a
lesser charge as part of his conviction
he'd have to undergo anger management
classes pay a 500
fine and 200 in court costs upon
completion of his anger management
classes he would no longer be on
probation
and white would also be told not to
contact stoltzdimer
stoltzheimer for his part would not be
charged with anything
upon closing out the case white's lawyer
would issue a funny statement that would
read
we're very happy with the result and
we're happy that the most highly
celebrated bar scuffle in the history of
the city of detroit has finally come to
an end
a year after the incident in 2004 white
did a q a on the white stripes website
where many of the questions centered
around his bar fight
white took the opportunity to claim that
the von bondy's frontman exploited the
scuffle to help album sales and
exaggerated his injuries
he would reveal the entire event was
completely exploited by him his band and
his managers and legal professionals
the two of us did have an argument and i
did spit at him but what he doesn't say
is how he then grabbed me to pull me
down and pulled out a good deal of my
hair
my retaliation was to hit him to get him
off me then he landed on my hand which
became cut on the broken glass
underneath it
the whole thing lasted less than 10
seconds he'd say
so you may be wondering did jack white
learn his lesson well in 2005 according
to the irish examiner
he claims he would do it all over again
saying it's definitely something that
should have happened a long time before
that
i don't know what took me so long he'd
say so that does it for today's video
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