My friend has a vague recollection of hearing something like that about the Steely Dan guitarist. My google-fu is working fine, but I can’t find any mention of it.
Perhaps your friend is remembering the wrongful death lawsuit filed against Becker in 1978 after his girlfriend’s death from a drug overdose.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Becker
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/s/steely+dan/biography.html
Becker was also having personal difficulties. His girlfriend at the time, Karen Stanley, died of a drug overdose in their shared Upper West Side Apartment. Becker was hit with a $17 million wrongful death suit, later settled out of court in his favor, but he was shocked by the accusations and the tabloid press coverage that followed.