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© St. Petersburg Times, published August 11, 2002
Knievel disputes tax bill
Evel Knievel, who made millions as a motorcycle stuntman in the 1970s, denies published reports that he owes hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid income taxes.
"I don't owe the state of Montana one dime," Knievel told the Associated Press on Friday in a telephone interview from Sturgis, S.D.
District Court records in Butte indicate Knievel owes as much as $800,000 in back taxes. The Department of Revenue confirmed it has records indicating it filed two liens against Knievel totaling $395,000. It was not immediately clear, however, when those liens were filed.
A spokeswoman for the IRS said the agency does not comment on such matters.
Eddie Vedder, the lead singer of Pearl Jam, is suing his former roommate over a videotape of some of his early performances.
Vedder claims Rick Bird, his roommate when he lived in San Diego in 1990, is selling copies of a tape showing him singing with the group Bad Radio in 1988.
Bird denied the allegations and said he and another roommate, Michael Braithwaite, have returned all of Vedder's belongings.
"I'm not selling anything," said Bird, a San Jose, Calif., resident, in an interview. "We moved out in 1991. We told him we had them, and he never picked them up."
Prince Charles unveiled a memorial bench to his grandmother, the Queen Mother, on the grounds of her beloved castle in Scotland.
Displaying the bench fashioned from local Caithness stone, the prince said Friday she had loved the spectacular Scottish sunsets as she spent vacations at the castle each year for almost half a century.
The Queen Mother bought the 16th century Castle of Mey in 1953. She died March 30 at 101.