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THE DA VINCI CODE author Dan Brown sat in Britain’s High Court yesterday accused of taking material for his blockbuster conspiracy thriller from a 1982 book about the Holy Grail.

THE secrets of The Da Vinci Code came in for legal scrutiny yesterday at the High Court in London, where multi-millionaire author Dan Brown confronted two historians who claim their work was plundered for his blockbuster novel.

The Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown triumphed in a New York City court on Friday, when a judge ruled his best-selling novel had not plagiarised another writer's work.

Dan Brown, author of the blockbuster novel The Da Vinci Code, is being sued for plagiarism in a New York court.