Harrison family and doctor settle
The doctor accused of forcing George Harrison to autograph a guitar as the former Beatle lay dying has agreed to dispose of the guitar, lawyers have announced.
Harrison's family had filed a $10m (€8m) lawsuit against Dr Gilbert Lederman, who treated him at a hospital in New York.
They claimed the doctor had coerced the failing Harrison to autograph his son's guitar and sign autographs for his two daughters.
The settlement was reached after two days of talks between lawyers for Harrison's family and for the doctor, according to Sky news.
Harrison, who died of cancer on November 29, 2001 was treated for about three weeks at the Staten Island University Hospital in New York.
Under terms of the settlement, the Harrison family will give Lederman's son a replacement guitar and drop the lawsuit.
The signed guitar and the autographs "will be disposed of privately", the lawyers' statement said.
The Harrison family had sought to obtain the guitar and autographs and had rejected the doctor's offer to donate the instrument to charity.
The statement said the settlement was not an admission of wrongdoing on anyone's part.
Last week, the hospital said Lederman was leaving his post as head of the radiation oncology department but said his departure was unrelated to the Harrison case.
