Simon & Schuster is suing the estate of mystery writer Nelson DeMille for $1.275 million in New York Surrogate Court over a novel he never finished. S&S contends in their Nassau County filing that the DeMille estate owes the publisher a $635,000 advance paid on the acceptance and delivery of an outline for his third book, EXPLORERS CLUB, which he had not completed when he died in 2024. They also seek one third of the initial signing advance of $1.92 million paid to DeMille when he signed a $15.3 million three-book deal in 2014. DeMille’s children, Alex DeMille and Lauren […]
