Family sharing one Itunes account, want to remove all of their computers content from my library... help

My family shares one Itunes account and I believe it was home sharing that brought all of their music, purchases, movies, etc. onto my Mac's Itunes Library. I want to remove all of their content from it. I turned off Homesharing and that didn't work. All of their music is on my computer and synchs to my Iphone and it's driving me nuts. Please help !

You can deauthorise all 5 at once, then reauthorize the one you want.
Learn how to authorize or deauthorize your computer with your Apple ID.
  http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1420
You need to log into iTunes on the computer you want to deauthorise. Otherwise, contact contact iTunes Store support to see if they can help.

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