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Ace Frehley has given given an ultimatum to Paul Stanley — apologize for negative comments he recently made or he’s going to spew “some dirt” about his former bandmate.

Stanley and Gene Simmons refused to perform with Frehley and Peter Criss at the band’s induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2014. When asked why Stanley said, “Because if you saw people onstage who looked like KISS but sounded like that, maybe we should be called Piss.”

Frehley struck back by saying “Those guys have been badmouthing me since I quit the very first time in 1981, 1982, calling me a drug addict, calling me an alcoholic, saying I’m unemployable, I’m undependable…

“I’m going to make a statement to Paul Stanley right now… I’m telling you that I want a formal apology for what you said, and a retraction and an apology within seven days. And if I don’t get that within seven days I’m going to tell some dirt that nobody knows about Paul and Gene, that I’ve always kept to myself because I’m the kind of guy who doesn’t talk about this. I like to talk about positive stuff…

“My attorney has [a 120-page manuscript detailing unspecified misdeeds by Stanley and Simmons] in a safety deposit box. God forbid anything happens to me, my attorney is instructed to release it to The New York Times, Rolling Stone, AP, everybody. So they can’t intimidate me with trying to hurt me or saying ‘you better not say anything about me live on the radio,’ because then they’re totally screwed. Their careers will be ruined. … Those guys aren’t squeaky clean. You know how many lawsuits girls have had against Gene?”

But, despite this, Frehley says he’d still perform with the band at their final shows in New York in December.

“I was actually hoping that maybe they’d invite me to come back for a third time, not because I really wanted to play with them because we created something really special and I’m the best fit in that band. Always will be. You think [guitarist] Tommy Thayer can do what I can do? Impossibility.”

Stanley is on a family vacation and hasn’t responded.

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