From Nashville's City Paper:
Two years after Nashvilleâs Jack White and Karen Elson threw a party to celebrate the pairâs ostensibly friendly break up, Elson has sought and received a restraining order against rock star White after a flurry of harassment allegations.
âWife fears for her and the childrenâs safety as a result of this harassment,â the order read, describing how White contacted his ex-wifeâs paralegal âin an inappropriate and aggressive manner.â
Elson, who cares for the pairâs two children, has been tussling for months with White over parenting rights. White wants to help raise the children, although Elson maintains that White is not fit to be a parent.
White, according to the restraining order affidavit, has a violent temper and a tendency of sending harassing emails and text messages.
The allegations are awful. And then there's this:
Recently, according to the filing, White wanted Elson to contact their kidsâ private school in an effort to get their kids out of a class in which another entertainerâs child was present. White said that he feels that entertainer âripped offâ his music, the order said.
In another incident, White berated Elson when she attended the wedding of a rival musician. Again, he was upset because this entertainer also âripped offâ his music, according to the order. The musician was unnamed in the court filing.
Oh man. Jack White whining about someone ripping off his music. I don't even know where to begin. Between the harassment allegations and the self-delusion, the Jack White presented in Elson's filing comes off as a seriously troubled jerk. (And suddenly Meg White joins Blanket Jackson and Lourdes Ciccone-Leon on my list of people whose eventually forthcoming books I anxiously await.)