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Zanetta. ‘He didn’t understand that he didn’t own
[half of] MainMan. We were sitting there, going over
what had gone wrong and trying to keep it all
together. I adored both David and Tony, so this was
more than heartbreaking – it felt like the end of the
world.’
Traumatic as the situation was for Zanetta, for
David it was far worse. He’d simply always assumed
he owned his own company, his own music; the
situation, as mapped out by Zanetta, was so
horrifically different, he seemed incapable of
comprehending it. Zanetta tried to explain to him that
he owned half his own revenue, less expenses, but
had no share in the other MainMan enterprises. The
obvious next step, if David wanted to ensure he had
received everything he was entitled to, was to hire an
accountant and go through the books, where every
penny of expenditure was documented. But David
had no interest in analysing his predicament. Defries
had created a magical aura, a cocoon where David
could create. Now the magic bubble had popped.
Over subsequent weeks, David made no effort to
investigate his contract with MainMan; he was only
interested in terminating it. ‘It was coming to an end
between them,’ says Zanetta, their conflicted gobetween.
‘Part of that was money. Part of it was
Defries’ megalomania. In fact, they were both
megalomaniacs’.
‘Tony had been a total father figure,’ adds Ava
Cherry. ‘David would do everything Tony said, would
listen to his every word. When he heard about the
money he was simply … afraid.’