Missy Elliot has reached a settlement with a music producer who claims to have co-written several of her songs from the 1990s, resolving the nearly seven-year-old dispute just as a trial was about to begin.

Law360 and Courthouse News Service both reported on Friday (Aug. 22) that Elliott’s lawyers and Terry Williams, who’s representing himself, arrived at a settlement in a Philadelphia federal courtroom just minutes before they were set to start selecting a jury for their copyright trial.

Details of the settlement were not immediately available, and neither Elliott’s attorneys nor Williams returned Billboard’s request for comment on Friday.

The lawsuit, which has been making its way through the court system since 2018, centers on the R&B girl group Sista, where Elliott got her start bef

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