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KFIX Rock News: Journey’s Neil Schon Sues San Francisco

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Journey guitarist Neal Schon says the city of San Francisco raised its fee on his wedding when it learned it would be on TV.

City officials say they did indeed but they were within their rights in doing that.

Schon is suing the city because he agreed to pay the city $58,000 for use of the Palace of Fine Arts for his wedding to “Real Housewives of D.C.” Michaele Salahi (mih-KEHL’ sah-LAH’-hee) in December 2013.

He says six days before the wedding, the city unfairly jacked up the fee to $240,000 when it found out the couple was going to broadcast the event as a pay-per-view TV show.

Schon says he paid it so the wedding would go on.

City Attorney Dennis Herrara’s office says the fee was indeed increased because the wedding evolved from a small secret wedding to a commercial broadcast and the city’s fees were adjusted accordingly.

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