KISS frontman Paul Stanley is making some shocking allegations in his memoir Face the Music: A Life Exposed, claiming original band members Ace Frehley and Peter Criss are anti-Semitic.
Stanley alleges that Frehley owned Nazi memorabilia and set up crew members without them knowing. He also said Criss would mock Chinese waiters.
“It’s based on years and years of interactions. It’s not pulled out of thin air,” he said of his comments.
He wrote that the guitarist would stash his drugs “in the bags or pockets of crew members — without their knowledge — so he wasn’t on the hook if they were found.”
New York Post reports he had a lot of negative things to say about Gene Simmons, such as saying he took credit for a lot of things he did not do, but Frehley and Criss were spotlighted a bit more.
“Ace and particularly Peter felt powerless and impotent when faced with the tireless focus, drive and ambition of me and Gene,” he wrote. “As a result, the two of them tried to sabotage the band — which, as they saw it, was unfairly manipulated by [us] money-grubbing Jews.”
All four original members will be attending their upcoming induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame despite controversy surrounding it, but they will not perform together. Eric Singer and Tommy Thayer have replaced Frehley and Criss for the past 13 years.
Face the Music: A Life Exposed was co-written by journalist Tim Mohr and it’s available Tuesday.