Frey, Publisher Settle ‘Unprecedented’ Lawsuit
Readers who felt burned by the fabrications in James Frey's "A Million Little Pieces" can claim refunds, an agreement called unprecedented by a leading publishing attorney.Readers who felt burned by the fabrications in “A Million Little Pieces” can claim refunds, an agreement called unprecedented by a leading publishing attorney.
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It’s pay back time for disgraced memoirist James Frey and his publisher, Random House Inc.
Under a tentative legal settlement, readers who said they were defrauded by Frey’s best seller, “A Million Little Pieces,” can claim refunds, an agreement called unprecedented — and understandable — by a leading publishing attorney.
“I can confirm that we have an agreement in principle,” David Drake, a spokesman for the Random House imprint Doubleday, said Thursday. “However, it requires court approval and may take several weeks and even months.”
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We got snookered. Motoko Rich of The New York Times reports in her article posted March 4 that the just-published "memoir" by Margaret B. Jones, called "Love and Consequences," about Jones' "life as a half-white, half-Native American girl growing up in South-Central Los Angeles as a foster child among gang-bangers, running drugs for the Bloods," is a fabrication.
The legendary father of New Journalism discusses his first new book in 14 years; the fallout of his wife's publication of James Frey's fabricated memoir; and how he may have spawned the "The Sopranos."
Surprised? Hey, Paris Hilton went from B-list to the cover of Vogue after her sex video made the rounds.
The Fabricating Fabulist loses out on a reported seven-figure deal with Riverhead Books because of the fallout from the scandal surrounding "A Million Little Pieces."
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