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TIL Prince's 'The Most Beautiful Girl in the World' was the subject to one of music's longest running plagiarism cases. In '95 an Italian court ruled that Prince had plagiarized 'Takin' Me to Paradise' by two Italian song writers. After many appeals by both sides an agreement was reached in 2022.

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