You're a Rob-ster, Williams

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ROBBIE Williams is set for a legal battle with Rod Stewart's stepson Ashley Hamilton over claims that The Robster nicked a song they'd worked on together for his forthcoming album.
Ashley - whose mum Alana was Rod's first wife - says he and Robbie came up with the idea for the track She's Madonna, which is on Robbie's new album, Rudebox.
The 31-year-old songwriter alleges that Robbie eventually took the track to charttoppers Pet Shop Boys to finish - although they won't have known of Ashley's claim to have been involved in the song.
But when he challenged Robbie about it, he claims he was told: "Go and f*** yourself!" Now Ashley has called in Dean & Dean Solicitors to fight the case.
He is demanding to get the credit, as well as the money he claims is owed to him - or he will take the pop star to court.
It's not the first time that Robbie has faced legal wrangling over songs.
In February 2002 he was found guilty of plagiarising a Loudon Wainwright version of Woody Guthrie's song I Am The Way for his own Jesus In A Camper Van track.
He was ordered to remove it from future copies of his album I've Been Expecting You and to pay £50,000 in royalties.
Ashley, who helped pen Robbie's hit Come Undone, told us angrily: "We came up with this idea over coffee one afternoon.
"Robbie said he had an idea for a song about some girl he used to date, Tania Strecker, and how she was dumped by Guy Ritchie for Madonna.
"That was a slimey thing to do, so I said, 'Why don't we make a joke song about it?' That's how it started. We worked on the lyrics together at home and at the studio. "The next thing I know, a producer's ringing me up to say congratulations for getting my song on Robbie's record. I just said: 'I don't know what you're talking about!'
"I was shocked. When you start working with someone, or you start an idea with someone, you're legally entitled to a share of the publishing.
"I have the demos of that tape and will see him in court if I have to. The money can all go to charity, I just want him to be a man and do the right thing."
Ashley, who lives in LA and is the halfbrother of Kimberly and Sean Stewart, says that when his manager tried to contact Robbie's people, the singer himself came to the phone and "went ballistic".
Robbie, 32, claims he wrote the track after seeing Madonna at the MTV Europe awards last year.
But Ashley says they came up with it about three years ago. He said: "He called me a c*** and told me that I should go and f*** myself.
"He said that he would pull the track off the album. If he wants to do that, then that's up to him."
Ashley, who befriended Robbie when he first moved to LA, added: "It's not like the guy's hurtin' for dough. Who knows, maybe he needs it for an extra bag of fish and chips."
A spokesperson for Robbie was unavailable for comment last night.'