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Mariah Carey’s Copyright Accuser Says Repaying Her ‘All I Want For Christmas’ Legal Bill Could Ruin Him

Mariah Carey's accuser in a lawsuit over “All I Want for Christmas is You" wants a judge to reject her demands that he repay a six-figure legal bill.

A songwriter who unsuccessfully sued Mariah Carey over “All I Want for Christmas is You” is pleading with a judge to reject demands that he repay her six-figure legal bill, warning it would push an “elderly man” to “the brink of a financial collapse.” But in a response filing on Monday, Vance’s lawyers said that such a award was “simply not reasonable” and completely out of proportion for the amount of litigation at issue – and that it could bankrupt an an “elderly man now without vast resources.” “The loss of this case … is staggering enough for this plaintiff and saddling him with $185,000 of big law firm billing that is unreasonable and forcing him to sell parts of his catalogue of music will accomplish nothing,” the lawyer writes.

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