U2 today won a High Court battle against their former stylist forcing her to hand over a cowboy hat and clothes she took from them in the late 1980s.
Bono was embroiled in a costly legal row with Lola Cashman over the ownership of a Stetson hat, a pair of metal hooped earrings, a green sweatshirt and a pair of black trousers.
He testified before Dublin's High Court last month that Ms Cashman took the items, estimated to be worth €5,000, without permission during the band's Joshua Tree tour in 1987.
She insists they were a gift to her from the multi-millionaire singer and is appealing against a circuit court ruling last year that she must return them.
During the appeal hearing, Ms Cashman claimed Bono was running around in his underpants backstage at Arizona's Sun Devil stadium on the last night of the tour when she asked him for the hat. The court was told he "plonked" it on her head.
The band also fought for the return of a number of other items which had been seen in her apartment including a video tape, video monitor, rosary beads, hundreds of photographs, some mugs and a Christmas decoration.
In 2002, Ms Cashman put some of the memorabilia up for sale at Christie's. She claimed two letters sent to the auction house from U2 lawyers seeking their return were defamatory.
She started proceedings against the band in the High Court in London and accused the rock superstars of bringing the action against her in Dublin to stop the defamation case.