Former KISS Manager Still Jailed
November 25, 2005According to FOXNews.com, former KISS manager and longtime fugitive Jesse Hilsen remains in jail after support magistrate Nicholas Palos did not vacate Hilsen's arrest warrant in New York Family Court on Tuesday (Nov. 22). Instead, Palos ordered that Hilsen appear in Family Court on Dec. 9 if and only if he's released by federal authorities first on that day.
Hilsen, 65, has been in prison for the past year and three months awaiting trial on charges that he failed to pay support to his ex-wife, Rita Hilsen, and their two children.
In the 1970s and 80s, Hilsen was a successful Manhattan psychotherapist. He became KISS's manager in 1988 because the band had grown leery of music-industry insiders; Dr. Hilsen was the therapist for Paul Stanley, KISS's frontman.
KISS leaders Gene Simmons and Stanley were served subpoenas by a private investigator in September 2003 before their performance at Chicago's Tweeter Center in connection with the case.
The purpose of the subpoenas was to determine what, if any, financial ties exist between Hilsen and the band, as well as whether any band members have been in touch with him since he became a fugitive. Hilsen and KISS split in 1992.
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