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Eddie Murphy
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Unfortunately, Coming to America ... brought additional legal problems for Murphy. Washington Post columnist Art Buchwald and writer Shelby Gregory, reported a People correspondent, alleged that Murphy stole their ideas for the film's screenplay. Buchwald said he did a story treatment that was optioned to Paramount for Murphy; Gregory claimed he did a screenplay that was given to Murphy. Gregory filed a $10 million lawsuit against Murphy and his co-screenwriters. In 1990 a superior court judge in California ruled that Coming to America was indeed based on the treatment that Buchwald had submitted and ordered Paramount to pay the columnist and Alain Bernheim, a producer and co-plaintiff, a lump sum and percentage of the movie's net profits.
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