More legal fun, and Robbie Williams reportedly faces a legal fight with Rod Stewart's stepson Ashley Hamilton over a song on his upcoming new album 'Rudebox'. According to the Daily Mirror, Hamilton, who worked with Robbie on some tracks in LA, claims that Robbie took one of those tracks as the basis for his collaboration with Pet Shop Boys, but without his permission.
The Mirror quote Ashley as saying: "We came up with this idea over coffee one afternoon. Robbie said he had an idea for a song about some girl he used to date, Tania Strecker, and how she was dumped by Guy Ritchie for Madonna. That was a smiley thing to do, so I said, 'Why don't we make a joke song about it?' That's how it started. We worked on the lyrics together at home and at the studio. The next thing I know, a producer's ringing me up to say congratulations for getting my song onto Robbie's record. I just said 'I don't know what you are talking about'."
The Mirror says Ashley's lawyers are launching legal proceedings, though a spokesman for Williams says they are yet to hear from them about the matter.