Leonard Cohen's ex-manager convicted

HALLELUJAH: Leonard Cohen's former manager has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for harassment, The Guardian reported. Kelley Lynch was found guilty of breaching several restraining orders by barraging the artist, who’s now 77, with emails and telephone calls. Cohen sacked Lynch in 2004, after she’d been his manager for 17 years. She had stolen millions of dollars from his accounts, and in 2006 a court ordered her to pay him $9.5 million. Even before that ruling, Lynch had begun contacting Cohen many times a day, threatening his family and saying he "needed to be taken down and shot". The messages were often obscene and sexually explicit, including accusations of tax fraud and drug abuse. "I do believe that I have engaged in excessive and unauthorized rambling," Lynch acknowledged on Tuesday.