Epic:
Jarred Weisfeld was just about ready to file his $10 million
defamation suit against Macmillan Publishers when he brought Rod
Blagojevich to their building to see if St. Martin’s Press, the big
commercial unit there, might want to publish the former Illinois
governor’s memoir.
“I was completely upfront with them,” the agent said
recently. “I said, ‘Hey, look, I’m gonna be suing you guys in a few
days—is this gonna have any effect on my client?’ They said the two
things had nothing to do with each other.”