Plastered
By Hits
Cynthia Plaster Caster is going to an L.A. court to recover her famed casts of rock star penises from L.A. music industry vet Herb Cohen, who has maintained possession of them for more than 20 years.
The $1 million lawsuit seeks to return 25 of the casts – including "anatomically precise" statues of Jimi Hendrix, Young Rascals lead singer Eddie Brigati, MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer and Anthony Newley – to the Plaster Caster, who originally created them as a 19-year-old University of Illinois art student 27 years ago.
Cohen has filed a $2 million countersuit claiming Plaster Caster relinquished ownership of the casts when she went to work for Frank Zappa in 1969 and signed a contract with Cohen and Zappa's Bizarre Productions. He claims he acquired the rights to the statues in the '70s following a legal dispute with Zappa. The original plaster casts have been "lost, stolen or destroyed," according to the suit, though bronze and silver replicas were mounted by Cohen on wooden pedestals.
The collection also includes a rare mold of HITS' Editor-in-Chief Lenny Beer's penis, though it was deemed by the court "too small to be of any value."