Michael Tracey

Correct.

Correct.

But what's so mind boggling is that just relatively recently, after this whole blow up around Epstein got ignited last July,

But what's so mind boggling is that just relatively recently, after this whole blow up around Epstein got ignited last July,

The book publishers obviously realized that it was a highly profitable opportunity for them to produce some version of her manuscript in the form of a new memoir.

The book publishers obviously realized that it was a highly profitable opportunity for them to produce some version of her manuscript in the form of a new memoir.

Now, she had been working on a new version of it with another ghostwriter for some time, Amy Wallace, but they...

Now, she had been working on a new version of it with another ghostwriter for some time, Amy Wallace, but they...

Obviously wanting to peg the publication of it to this renewed Epstein uproar.

Obviously wanting to peg the publication of it to this renewed Epstein uproar.

So the memoir finally gets published in some capacity in October of last year.

So the memoir finally gets published in some capacity in October of last year.

It becomes an international bestseller, not just in the United States, but in Britain, Australia, et cetera.

It becomes an international bestseller, not just in the United States, but in Britain, Australia, et cetera.

And I'm still stunned.

And I'm still stunned.

I mean, maybe I can no longer really be stunned anymore.

I mean, maybe I can no longer really be stunned anymore.

But it's still stunning to think back on how credulously the reception to that memoir was, even though, I mean, it was basically just Amy Wallace, this ghostwriter, repackaging and massaging.

But it's still stunning to think back on how credulously the reception to that memoir was, even though, I mean, it was basically just Amy Wallace, this ghostwriter, repackaging and massaging.