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Posted: 6/11/08 at 4:20pm
From AP:
"The mystery is solved: Madonna's brother, Christopher Ciccone, is writing a memoir about his sister, to be released in mid-July by Simon & Schuster with a first printing of 350,000, the publisher told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
"The publisher had been promoting a celebrity memoir for July, asking bookstores to order copies without identifying the author or contents.
"Persuading stores to make "blind" orders has been tried before. In 2006, William Morrow offered a mysterious tell-all that turned out to be by Princess Diana's former butler Paul Burrell, who had already written about her. Retailers were angered and the book sold poorly."
According to Rupert Everett's book, he and Madonna are estranged due to Guy Ritchie's homophobia. Eeenteresting.
"The mystery is solved: Madonna's brother, Christopher Ciccone, is writing a memoir about his sister, to be released in mid-July by Simon & Schuster with a first printing of 350,000, the publisher told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
"The publisher had been promoting a celebrity memoir for July, asking bookstores to order copies without identifying the author or contents.
"Persuading stores to make "blind" orders has been tried before. In 2006, William Morrow offered a mysterious tell-all that turned out to be by Princess Diana's former butler Paul Burrell, who had already written about her. Retailers were angered and the book sold poorly."
According to Rupert Everett's book, he and Madonna are estranged due to Guy Ritchie's homophobia. Eeenteresting.
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