Loathsome Book Publisher Fired
Judith Regan, the Queen Bitch of HarperCollins book imprint ReganBooks, was unceremoniously canned last week. The announcement that the world's most infamous book publisher was eligible for unemployment benefits was released on Friday.
According to news reports, Regan's dismissal was the result of an alleged anti-semitic comment. However, it's safe to assume the fallout from her latest and most notorious book and television project, If I Did It by former NFL star and alleged murderer Orenthal James Simpson factored into the dismissal as well.
The super-creepy, universally reviled book and related Fox News interview special wasn't the first time Regan's first brush with scandal. Usually, though, she's the one exploiting it.
For most of her career as a book publisher, Regan specialized in putting America's worst obsessions to print. As HarperCollins executive editor David Hirshey once said, there wouldn't be a Paris Hilton autobiography if it weren't for Regan. Without Regan, Scott Peterson's mistress and Osama Bin Laden's niece likewise would have gone unpublished.
In 2004, Regan was involved in a sex scandal when information about her affair with married former New York City police chief and onetime Homeland Security Secretary nominee Bernie Kerik was revealed. She started fucking him while he wrote his book The Last Son, which was printed under Regan's imprint. During their year-long affair, Regan met Kerik for trysts at an apartment donated for post-9/11 recovery efforts. She also paid Kerik $75,000 to write an 11-sentence long introduction for a charity book about 9/11 families.
However, Regan's ability to publish gazillion-copy sellers always kept her from facing serious repercussions. The year the Kerik scandal was revealed, the ReganBooks release How to Make Love Like a Porn Star by Jenna Jameson spent six weeks on the New York Times best sellers list. Cashing in on O.J., though, was the unforgivable sin.
Regan's lawyer declared "war" on HarperCollins parent company, Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Considering Regan's reputationVanity Fair called her a "foul-mouthed tyrant" in a 2005 profileit's going to be bloody.
O.J. Simpson's "If I Did It" Book and Special Canceled
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In an alarming show of clear thinking and good taste (shareholders must have been pissed), News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch has canceled the O.J. Simpson book and television interview If I Did It - the controversial exploration of the Nicole Simpson/Ron Goldman murders from O.J.'s perspective if he were guilty. The special and book were scheduled to dreck up the American consciousness next week.
"I and senior management agree with the American public that this was an ill-considered project," said Rupert Murdoch, News Corp. chairman. "We are sorry for any pain that his has caused the families of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson."
Simpson has already been sucking the cock of the dark overlord Satan for years, due to his alleged dark deeds. Now, having engineered this failed exploitation train wreck "publisher" Judith Regan can join him in the souless abyss on suck detail.
No word yet on whether or not the Musical has also been cancelled. -Ed.
OJ Simpson "Hypothetically" Kills Wife in New Book
Publishers offered O.J. Simpson $3.5 million dollars to write a tell-all about the double murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. Simpson, who was found not guilty in his notorious criminal trial, but later found responsible for his ex-wifes death in civil court, will write the book as if he did slaughter his wife and an innocent bystander.
Simpson is not actually confessing to the murder rather, hes writing a hypothetical book which the Enquirer reports is tentatively being called If I Did It.
The early part of the book tells how Simpson fell in love with Nicole and how the marriage collapsed, reports the tab. He goes on, according to the article, to describe in gruesome detail the killing of his ex-wife and Goldman; he stipulates that the murder scenes are hypothetical. But, notes the tab, the descriptions are so detailed and so chillingly realistic that readers are left with little doubt as to what really happened.
Simpson still owes the Brown and Goldman families millions of dollars from the civil judgment, but none of the money from the book deal will make it to their pockets; Simpson allegedly vowed to spend the $3.5 million as quickly as possible in order to avoid paying up.
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O.J. Simpson Fights for His Money
O.J. is off the golf course and back in court, this time to prevent Ron Goldmans father from getting a share of the money Simpson makes from public appearances and selling autographs.
Fred Goldman, whose son, Ron Goldman, was killed alongside Simpson's ex-wife Nicole in 1994, filed a petition last month in Santa Monica Superior Court seeking control of the publicity rights to O.J. Simpson's name and likeness.
Simpson was acquitted in criminal courts of the double homicide but was found liable for the deaths in a 1997 civil court trial. He was subsequently ordered to pony up $33.5 million. With interest, hes now in the hole to the tune of $38 million. Goldman claims Simpson hasnt paid a dime.
Meanwhile, the infamous Bruno Magli fan has been lolling about in Florida - a degree or two cooler than his reserved spot in hell. According to Simpson (or, rather, his lawyer), that puts him out of reach of California courts.
The matter will be heard by a judge on Wednesday, the first step in what will, undoubtedly, be another long battle. O.J., the legal system has missed you.
You're a bad, bad man, O.J.
Goldman Family Hits Back at OJ Simpson
In what may be one of the best ideas ever, the family of murder victim Ron Goldman petitioned a Los Angeles court for publicity rights to the name and likeness of O.J. Simpson. The Goldman and the Nicole Brown Simpson family won a $33.5 million wrongful death ruling against Simpson in 1997, but O.J. refused to pay.
The petition, filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court in Santa Monica, asks that Simpson's "right of publicity" be transferred to help pay off the Goldman family's portion of the lawsuit award, estimated at about $20 million, plus interest.
A hearing on the petition was scheduled for Oct. 17.
A jury found Simpson not guilty of killing his ex-wife Nicole, and her friend Ron Goldman, but a civil court later ruled against him, finding him responsible for the deaths. Since the judgment, Simpson has gone to great lengths to avoid paying up.
"He personally has never paid a dime on the judgment to anyone," Fred Goldman said. "He has made it very clear over the years that he has no intention of doing so."
Simpsons attorneys refused to comment on the latest lawsuit. Surely they will point out O.J. will be unable to finance his lifelong search for the real killer if the Goldman family wins.
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OJ Simpson Sex Tape?
With all the atrocities committed throughout American history, its hard to imagine another in our very own lifetime. But guess what
another smear on Americas image; celebrity sex tape broker David Hans Schmidt released a sex tape featuring OJ Simpson banging two broads. I know youre shocked that an honorable citizen like OJ would ever film himself in such a compromising position, but it appears to be true.
The tape, portions of which have been viewed by the Daily News, shows a man who's a dead ringer for Simpson having cocktails with two women in a hotel room, then stretching out on a bed and unzipping his pants. The man, who has the same wobbly knees as the 58-year-old Heisman Trophy winner, is later seen naked.
The twenty-five minutes of scorching video shows Simpson, his ex-girlfriend Christie Prody, and a prostitute engaging in very enthralling conversations.
OJ Simpson: "I didn't believe in sex addicts until my last few girlfriends, now I'm a sexaholic!
Christie: I am too.
OJ Simpson: If I'm not sexually active, I become destructive."
Christie: I mean, were totally happy together, but sometimes its like, I like threesomes!
Prostitute: Lets fuck!
Simpsons attorney Yale Galanter stated his client appears in the video, but only in the clothed portions, and the dude banging Simpsons ex and the hooker, "is an imposter."
"This tape is garbage," said Galanter. "And we can prove it. OJ wouldn't do anything like this."
Schmidt claimed he obtained the tape from an off-shore sex tape provider. He offered the nasty vid for $19.95 from www.badoj.com, but buyer beware: OJ may profit from the sale. In 2001, the Globe reported OJs plan to make a video, with his earnings deposited into an offshore bank so he wouldnt lose them to the estates of Ron Goldman and Nichole Brown Simpson.
Schmidt said, "OJ is welcome to say that's not him on the tape, just like he said he didn't murder Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman. But there's no question in my mind the real OJ is having sex on this tape. When the tape comes out, people can make their own judgment."
Where's Johnnie Cochrane when you need him?