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Missy Elliott settles co-writing lawsuit

Missy Elliott has reached a settlement with a music producer who claimed to have co-written several of her songs from the 1990s.

The move ends a long-running legal dispute, days before a jury trial was due to begin.

The agreement puts paid to a lawsuit filed by Terry Williams, who claims he and Elliott collaborated on numerous songs in the 1990s, and that she refused to credit him as a co-writer.

The lawsuit, which has been in progress since 2018, centres on the R&B girl group SISTA - Elliott's band before she broke out as a solo artist.

Williams, a music producer who once owned a Philadelphia recording studio, claimed that he and Elliott co-wrote four songs on Sista's 1994 album 4 All the Sistas Around da World.

He alleged that Elliott unfairly left him off the songwriting credits and was seeking, through the lawsuit, to recover royalties dating back to the 1994 album release.

Elliott has maintained that Williams "did not write a single lyric or in any manner contribute to any of the songs".

Elliott's lawyer shared with Billboard, "No money was paid in connection with any of Terry Williams' claims, the last remnants of which were dismissed."

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