FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, 12/29/05:

ROCK SINGER GENA MASON POISED TO CLAIM MILLIONS IN MYSTERY LAWSUIT

--Multiple defendants inexplicably default in case worth $100 million

Four out of six named defendants have defaulted in a lawsuit for $100 million. The plaintiff, New York singer, poet, and musician Gena Mason, alleges that, since at least 1994 (or before), a group of individuals has tried to murder and debilitate her, stage a cover-up, and discredit her.

Evidence indicates that, at the age of 21, the singer was forced under general anaesthesia and subjected to an unauthorized and illegal abortion without her knowledge or consent. Years later, she claims victimization by more healthcare fraud (including being given treatment by someone who turned out not to be a doctor and provided her, without her knowledge, with a prescription for addictive drugs); multiple forms of identity theft; numerous other forms of fraud; constant break-ins of her homes and automobile; frequent vandalism and defamation; racial and sexual harassment at every job (one co-worker handed her his semen in a paper towel), and other offenses.

Most disturbingly, she claims to have been poisoned constantly, often daily, since at least 2000, and has suffered other forms of assault and battery. In February, she states, someone tampered with her Ford Mustang, causing it to malfunction and crash. Luckily, she walked away from the totaled car--and flew back to New York, to file suit.

Fear for her safety has caused Mason to move to 5 different states since 2000.

Mason has slapped seven named defendants with claims of conspiracy, fraud, harassment, assault, battery, conversion, trespass to chattel, trespass to land, tortious interference with prospective economic advantage, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and fraudulent concealment.

To which most of the defendants have responded with...

"Nothing. I've heard absolutely nothing." Of the first six named defendants, the only ones to answer her complaint were former bosses Danny Schechter and Rory O'Connor. A seventh named defendant has not been served.

Mason wants to know who else is responsible. "Obviously, some person or group of persons has been trying to murder me since I was a teenager." (Mason turned 33 on November 29.) "Only someone in the government would have this kind of reach."

This spring, Microcosm Publishing (Oregon) released nationwide Mason's acclaimed political zine, The CIA Makes Science Fiction Unexciting #3, which explores post-PATRIOT Act government incursions on the civil liberties of private citizens.

Gena Mason, who has represented herself in the suit so far, is an honors student in a paralegal program through the City University of New York. This weekend she kicks off a regional tour, with a show at the Abbey Lounge, in Cambridge, MA. She is working on production of her second commercial release.

Mason released her first record in 2004. She has graced stages in New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco, Boston, Portland, Olympia, Boise, and Santa Cruz. Her music has been in rotation on college radio in New York, Los Angeles, Portland, and Olympia. She has been interviewed live on college and pirate radio, and online.