Michael Baigent, R.I.P.

MICHAEL BAIGENT HAS DIED:

Writer who sued over Da Vinci Code dies
Updated: 16:06, Tuesday June 25, 2013 (SkyNews.com.au)

New Zealand writer Michael Baigent, who gained attention for launching a lawsuit contending that The Da Vinci Code stole ideas from his own book, has died of a brain hemorrhage at age 65, his literary agent says.

Baigent is best-known for writing the 1982 non-fiction book The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, which explores theories that Jesus married Mary Magdalene, the couple had a child and the bloodline survives.

In 2006 Baigent and co-author Richard Leigh made international headlines when they sued Dan Brown's publisher for copyright infringement, claiming that Brown 'appropriated the architecture' of their book in a high-profile London court case they eventually lost.

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I followed the case back in the spring of 2006. See here, here, here, here, and here. Also note here.