Alamo lawsuit: Experts say they were defamed by book suggesting fake artifacts sold to Phil Collins

Two Alamo experts are suing the authors of a book that claims they sold fraudulent artifacts from the historic site to people, including British rock star Phil Collins.

The book, written by journalists Chris Tomlinson, Bryan Burrough and Jason Stanford, and an excerpt that was published in the Texas Monthly magazine last year, both implied that some artifacts the two men had gathered to be displayed at the Alamo site as part of a proposed renovation weren’t authentic.

It also implied that fake artifacts may have been sold to Collins for his Alamo collection, which he had planned to donate to the museum.