New York Post

Weiner tell-all plan goes limp

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DISGRACED former congressma­n Anthony Weiner was working on a tell-all book, sources exclusivel­y tell Page Six, but his latest sex scandal involving a teen girl sank the project.

Page Six has learned that before news broke in September that the one-time mayoral candidate had been having a “sexting” relationsh­ip with a 15-year-old, Weiner was working up a book proposal with top literary agency Foundry Literary + Media.

Insiders say that after Weiner was exposed sending pervy messages to a North Carolina teen, Foundry cooled on the project but “wanted to keep [the option] open, in case they decided to revisit it,” a source said. “But things have since taken a dark turn,” after Weiner pleaded guilty last week to a felony related to the creepy liaison.

When we contacted Foundry about the book, a spooked-sounding receptioni­st hung up on us.

Insiders tell us a deal with a publisher hadn’t been reached by the time the agency backed away from the Weiner book. His soon-to-be-exwife, Huma Abedin, a Hillary Clinton aide, is shopping her own memoir for $2 million, the Hollywood Reporter recently reported.

Sources say Weiner’s book — which would likely have covered his various sexting scandals, including his resignatio­n from the House and the ultimate FBI investigat­ion that crippled Clinton’s presidenti­al campaign — would have been con- trite and aimed at “winning favor” for the scandal-savaged former pol. But the guilty plea put the proposed project to rest.

On the bright side for Weiner: Perhaps a postprison memoir will be of more interest.

In September it was reported that Weiner — who represente­d New York’s 9th District from 1999 to 2011, when he was forced to quit over his first sexting scandal — had carried on a monthslong, explicit online fling with the North Carolina teen. An FBI investigat­ion, which included a search of Weiner and Abedin’s personal computers, reopened the feds’ investigat­ion into Clinton’s private e-mail server 11 days before the 2016 presidenti­al election.

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