Mariah Carey is being sued for £16 million for All I Want For Christmas Is You

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Singer Mariah Carey and her co-songwriter Walter Afansieff have reportedly been named in a lawsuit brought by Andy Stone, who has accused the pair of copying the huge song All I Want for Christmas is You.

Mariah, 53, is reportedly being sued for $20 million (£16 million) following claims from Andy that the hit song was taken from a tune with the same name that he wrote for Vince Vance and the Valiants back in 1989.

Legal documents have been filed to the US District Court in the Eastern District of Louisiana and Andy claims he never gave permission for the song to be used.

Get exclusive celebrity stories and fabulous photoshoots straight to your inbox with OK!'s daily newsletter. Legal documents, which have been obtained by the PA news agency, claim that Mariah, along with her collaborators on the song: “knowingly, willfully, and intentionally engaged in a campaign” to infringe Andy’s copyright of the song.The documents are also said to reveal that Mariah and collaborators are also accused of committing “acts of unjust enrichment by the unauthorised appropriation of plaintiff’s work and the goodwill associated therewith”.