Musician Accusing Mellencamp Of Theft Denies Faking Report

By Craig Clough ( January 12, 2026, 5:46 PM EST) -- A musician alleging that John Mellencamp's 1996 hit song "Key West Intermezzo (I Saw You First)" stole from his own noncharting track denied to a California federal judge Monday that he wrote a report attributed to his music expert and then failed to make him available for a meaningful deposition....

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