Author who posed as prostitute faces NY fraud case
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A best-selling novelist who pretended  she was a 19-year-old male prostitute sought to defend herself  in court on Wednesday against claims she defrauded a film  company that bought the rights to her book.
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Gary Condit is ready to answer questions about his sexual history so he can pursue his slander case against a magazine writer who suggested the former congressman is hiding information about the death of intern Chandra Levy, his lawyer said Thursday.
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A former well-known New York stockbroker pleaded guilty Tuesday to cheating his clients out of millions of dollars and generating fraudulent commissions for himself.
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The author of a cookbook of healthy comfort food for children sued Jessica and Jerry Seinfeld on Monday, charging copyright infringement and defamation.
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WATERTOWN, N.Y. - A woman who claims she was used as unknowing bait to catch a man taking photographs up women's skirts is suing retailer T.J. Maxx.
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The author of an "unauthorized tribute" to Clay Aiken is suing the "American Idol" singer, claiming he defamed her and conspired to stifle sales of her book.
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Photographer Larry Birkhead, who was proved in April to be the biological father of former Playboy playmate Anna Nicole Smith's daughter, said Tuesday he will sue the author and publisher of a new book on Smith's death that contains allegations he called "pure fiction."
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A New York Times reporter is facing up to 18 months in prison after a federal judge held him in contempt of court on Thursday for refusing to name her source to prosecutors
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A former US Weekly editor has sued the magazine for $55 million, saying its employees damaged her career by accusing her of stealing information from the magazine's computers.
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A UK playwright is accused of plagiarism over her work on serial killers by a criminal psychologist.
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The lawyer for Judith Regan, whose plan to publish a book by O.J. Simpson called "If I Did It" ignited a firestorm of criticism, plans to sue HarperCollins for dismissing the publisher in breach of her contract, The New York Times reported on its Web site on Tuesday.
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Star Jones has been sued for more than &#36;7,000 for work a gardener says he did on her Manhattan penthouse terrace to prepare it for an Architectural Digest photo layout.
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The lawyer for Judith Regan, whose  plan to publish a book by O.J. Simpson called "If I Did It"  ignited a firestorm of criticism, plans to sue HarperCollins  for dismissing the publisher in breach of her contract, The New  York Times reported on its Web site on Tuesday.
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The editor of Playboy Indonesia went on trial on Thursday on charges of distributing indecent pictures to the public and making money from them, which could carry a jail term of up to 32 months.
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NEW YORK - English playwright Byrony Lavery has been accused of plagiarizing passages from a criminal psychiatrist and a magazine writer in her Tony Award-nominated play about a serial killer and his psychiatrist.    Dr...
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The author of a best-selling Australian book about the honor killing of a Jordanian woman has admitted she fabricated parts of her supposed true-life story.
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In a sign of new threats, a jailed militant's autobiography offers tips on Internet credit card fraud.