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...Shimon Viner, age 14, Lithuania,” he reads somberly as students rush past with puzzled looks...
...Star -- still insists Gecker was pushing for that amount. Editor Phil Bunton considered Willey?s story to be ?not worth more than $50,000.? And Gecker doesn?t deny talking to the tabloid altogether, nor does he deny that Willey was looking for a book deal from publisher Michael Viner. At week?s end, these little details -- along with Julie Steele?s claim that Willey asked her to lie to Newsweek -- have done more to damage Willey?s credibility than any White House spin doctoring...
...keep the tapes out of the Simpson trial, losing that battle earlier this month in the North Carolina courts, her motives, like those of so many people connected to this case, may not be entirely unselfish. She told PrimeTime Live that the tapes are not for sale, yet Michael Viner, owner of Dove Audio Inc., which has published a number of books about the Simpson case, says he was approached about buying them, but the price was prohibitive. Sources at the television show EXTRA, the National Enquirer and the tabloid Globe also say the tapes were offered to them, with...
Though Michael Viner is making a mint off the O.J. Simpson trial, he likes to think he is taking the high road. As the owner, with his actress wife Deborah Raffin, of Dove Audio Inc., Viner has so far signed up four books about the case: Faye Resnick's Nicole Brown Simpson: The Private Diary of a Life Interrupted, which has sold about a million copies in book and audio form; I Know You Want to Tell Me, But I Really Don't Want to Know, a spoof of Simpson's own literary efforts; a work-in-progress by embattled...
...Viner is hardly alone in his efforts to profit from the Simpson case. Starting with the mass-market paperback O.J. Simpson: American Hero, American Tragedy (Pinnacle), which materialized about two weeks after the murders, a total of 12 books related to the case have landed in stores to date. Some half-dozen more-including a memoir by Johnnie Cochran's ex-wife, Barbara Cochran Berry (Basic Books), and works by regular trial watchers Dominick Dunne and Joe McGinniss (both published by Crown) and Jeffrey Toobin (Random House)-are still to come. How much more will the market bear? Says Thomas...