Aide to Fired Editor Says Remark Wasn’t Anti-Semitic

[oberliner]

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 22 ( Reuters) — A former aide to Judith Regan, the recently fired editor of O. J. Simpson’s unpublished memoir “If I Did It,” has come forward to defend the maverick publisher from charges of anti-Semitism, Ms. Regan’s lawyer said on Friday.

The publishing company HarperCollins fired Ms. Regan last week and has quoted her as having complained in an argument with a company lawyer that she was the victim of a “Jewish cabal” after her book deal with Mr. Simpson, and a related Fox network TV interview, were scrapped by the parent corporation, the News Corporation. But an aide who worked as Regan’s temporary assistant for one week, Carmen del Toro, has offered an account of the conversation, which contradicts the account of anti-Semitic remarks, according to Ms. Regan’s lawyer, Bert Fields.

“An independent third-party witness heard the conversation and says that Judith Regan is telling the absolute truth, that she did not make the anti-Semitic remark attributed to her,” Mr. Fields said.

Ms. del Toro recounted instead that Ms. Regan had said she “felt a ‘cabal’ had been formed against her within the company,” Mr. Fields said. He added that HarperCollins “couldn’t find a legitimate way to get rid of Judith, so they made one up.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/23/business/media/23book.html?_r=1&ref=media&oref=slogin

[whistle]

1. Boy, there is a lot of "dirt" being issued about Judith Regan

...sort of like a "boomer version" of Monica Lewinski.

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November 20, 2006
Does L'Affair de OJ Hurt or Feed Judith Regan's Image
David Kiley


So, Rupert Murdoch issued an executive order. Kill OJ. The head cheese at News Corp. decided he'd had enough. Fox affiliates were refusing to run the Fox produced documentary on O.J. Simpson tied into HarperCollins' publishing of the notoriously titled O.J. Simpson memoir "If I did It" about how he might have gone about killing his wife and friend/flunky Ron Goldman. Might have? Ha! Fox's Bill O'Reilly was excoriating his own employer almost nightly over the affair. Night-time Fox nutball, judge, jury and executioner Sean Hannity was criticizing as well.,

So Murdoch pulled the book from Fox owned HarperCollins and the show from Fox Network. And, so it seems, he pulled the rug out from under ReganBooks chief Judith Regan who is at the center of the multi-million OJ deal.

By the way, if OJ's contract looks anything like the publishing contracts I have signed, he gets to keep his money.
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http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/brandnewday/archives/2006/11/does_laffair_de.html

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http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/480660p-404441c.html

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/480660p-404441c.html

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/261625p-224000c.html

[nealmhughes]

2. It was a cabal, Judy, not of only Jews but of everyone with taste.

One might term it "nearly everyone in the country," as easily as "cabal."