George Harrison's Autograph Guitar Lawsuit

After English musician and former Beatle George Harrison died from lung cancer in 2001, his widow, Olivia Harrison, sued a doctor named Gilbert Lederman over his conduct during Harrison's experimental radiation therapy at Staten Island University Hospital. Her 2004 lawsuit alleged that Lederman forced Harrison, while he was in pain and lacked his full mental faculties, to listen to the doctor's young son play guitar and autograph the instrument. She also accused Lederman of discussing Harrison's condition with the media. They settled out of court on the condition that the guitar be destroyed.

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