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February 16, 2005By Michael Cader

Lunch for Wednesday, February 16

February 16, 2005By Michael Cader

RH Sues Diddy For Dough Over Unwritten Manuscript Random House filed suit on Monday against music mogul Sean “P. Diddy” Combs, seeking the return of an advance paid by Ballantine in 1998 for an autobiography that the star never wrote. The house said in a statement, “We now have waited for over five years and have received neither the manuscript nor the return of the money we advanced Mr. Combs.” According to court papers, the publisher began notifying Diddy that he was in breach of contract and they wanted their $300,000 advance back as of early 2000. (Starting in 2001, […]

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