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PRINCE AND SECOND WIFE FILE FOR DIVORCE: Also bootleg Prince DVD banned in Germany following groundbreaking court decision.
*Prince and his 29-year-old second wife, Manuela Testolini Nelson, are headed for divorce court.
People magazine cited Prince's lawyer, Alan Eidsness, in confirming Wednesday that the 48-year-old rocker has decided to end his five-year marriage with the Toronto native, who used to work at his charitable foundation.
A sealed divorce action was filed May 24 at Hennepin County District Court in Prince's home state of Minnesota.
Manuela Testolini, who took Prince’s last name of Nelson, was married to the singer in 2001 – three years following his divorce from backup singer and dancer Mayte Garcia, whom he married in 1996.
*Meanwhile, the distribution of a bootleg DVD featuring a 1983 performance by Prince and the Revolution has been halted in Germany following a June ruling by the Berlin Higher Court.
In the first-ever ruling of its kind in Germany, the court has expanded its ban of bootleg CD sales to include DVDs. As a result, Berlin-based distribution company Falcon in Wittenburg is banned from manufacturing and distributing further copies of the illegal DVD, titled “Prince And The Revolution - The Homecoming." The company is also ordered to destroy all existing copies.
The court stated in its decision that Falcon's distribution violates German copyright law, international treaties and Prince's moral rights as the DVD is based on an amateur recording of the original 1983 gig.
"The sound and the pictures are of such a poor quality, it is extremely damaging to the artist's image," the judge said, according to Reuters.
Details of last month’s ruling were disclosed last Friday by Prince's lawyer Martin Diesbach.
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