 While keeping his San Francisco address, Jacob rented an apartment in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan starting in June 1972, and in July he took over as president, to organize the Hendrix tapes and to keep the studio in operation.But when Jeffery died in March 1973, a legal battle arose between the estates of Jeffery and Hendrix.Declining to take sides, Jacob ended his contract with the studio, and shifted instead to a new venture with Chip Monck