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The battle for George Michael | The Independent

The battle for George Michael | The Independent: On Tuesday morning, a solicitor named Tony Russell arrived at George Michael's Hampstead home with more than 400 pages of legal documents. Michael has displayed a curious knack of creating litigious havoc since his very first days in Wham!, and for the last 12 years, Russell has guided him through many drawn-out negotiations and complex contracts. Now he had come to conclude the most acrimonious confrontation of all: the battle between George Michael and Sony Music Entertainment that had lasted a little under three years and had cost both sides many millions of pounds.

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