Wife of Bob Dylan’s collaborator sues after sale of entire song catalogue
blockbuster sale of his song catalogue, new court papers show. The late Jacques Levy co-wrote 7 of 9 songs on Dylan’s 1976 album “Desire” for which he’s owed 35% “of any and all income earned by the compositions” including “35% of the purchase price paid to the Dylan defendants,” according to wife Claudia Levy’s, Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit from Wednesday.But Levy’s estate was never compensated after the 79-year-old Dylan sold the rights to his roughly 600-song collection to Universal Music Group on Dec.