Attorneys for Simon & Schuster updated their motion to dismiss Milo Yiannopoulos’s breach of contract lawsuit, while noting that Milo’s own revision of his complaint was “filed on the eve of the Preliminary Conference.” In their new filing, the publisher more closely binds the $80,000 first advance that Yiannopoulos did not repay along with his acceptance of the reversion of rights to his manuscript, which he subsequently self-published, as constituting his agreement to S&S’s cancellation of the contract. They underscore that Milo’s attorney only rejected the cancellation in writing months later, after he was actively exploiting the publishing rights: “Yiannopoulos accepted […]
