HarperCollins Sues Victoria Gotti
Posted on June 9, 2008
HarperCollins is suing Victoria Gotti for return of advance money for the book she never wrote.
The daughter of the "Teflon" mafia don John Gotti has been sued by her publisher over failed plans to produce a memoir of her father's career as a camera-friendly face of organised crime.Victoria is the daughter of John Gotti, the one time head of the Gambino crime family. He was known as the "Teflon Don" because he never got convicted of anything, until late in life. He eventually died in prison of cancer. Victoria had her own reality tv show, but it didn't do that well. Who's going to give her another book contract when she owes HarperCollins $70,000?In a lawsuit filed yesterday in New York, HarperCollins alleges that Victoria Gotti has failed to return a $70,000 (£35,000) advance for a memoir originally due in November 2005. Gotti told the publisher last September that she was breaking the contract, but HarperCollins claims it has not had its money returned.
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Gotti, who already had a successful career as a romantic novelist and New York post columnist before the death of her father, is now said by her literary agent, Frank Weiman, to be looking to make another publishing deal before returning HarperCollins' advance.
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