Don Henley Still Regrets Getting 16-Year-Old Prostitute Coked Up

If Don Henley, the co-founder of the Eagles, could do it all over, he definitely wouldn't have hired a hooker to stop over to his house back in 1980 and she 100% wouldn't have gotten coked up, the music legend testified Monday in a Manhattan court. 

The singer-songwriter was on the stand for a case over allegedly stolen handwritten draft lyrics to "Hotel California," when he was asked about the coked up underage prostitute spending the night in his bed. 

Don says the hooker was a "madam" who was called to "provide company" during the breakup of the band he founded, which caused him great depression. 

US musician Don Henley of the band "Eagles" arrives at the courtroom after lunch break at Manhattan Criminal Court on February 26, 2024, in New York. The Eagles frontman Don Henley said Monday he was the victim of "extortion" as the trial began of three men accused of trying to sell around 100 pages of stolen notes from the band's 1976 album "Hotel California". (Photo by Yuki IWAMURA / AFP) (Photo by YUKI IWAMURA/AFP via Getty Images)

"I wanted to forget what was going on. I wanted to escape the depression I was in," Henley said in Manhattan Supreme Court when the prosecution dug into crimes he's committed.

"So, I made a mistake — I called [a] madam and told her I wanted some company. And a few hours later, a young woman arrived at my home."

Drummer Don Henley of the rock band "Eagles" poses for a portrait in 1975. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

Henley told the court that the prostitute he estimated at the time to be around 20 or 21 – Henley was in his early 30s at the time – stopped by and they partied. 

But, Don swears there was no sex between the two. 

"I don’t remember the anatomical details, but I know there was no sex," he told the court Monday. 

It's an interesting defense, but it's one he's used in the past. 

Don says the two drank wine, and then the teen asked the world traveler if he had any cocaine. Hell yeah he did! And then they "did some of that." 

One thing led to another, they were all coked up, went to bed – Don swears nothing happened sexually! – and the next morning he found the coked up prostitute having a seizure. 

The paramedics come to his house, they find the naked teen overdosing, the cops are called and ol' Don was popped for contributing to the delinquency of a minor and paid a $2,500 fine. 

"I made a poor decision which I regret to this day. I’ve had to live with it for 44 years. I’m still living with it today in this courtroom," Henley said in court Monday.