Hot bids ahead for Farrow
Auction for Dylan’s book
UP to a half-dozen publishers are said to be expressing interest in the proposal for a debut young adult novel by Dylan Farrow, Media Ink has learned.
The proposal is heading to auction on Wednesday, sources said.
Farrow has already turned down a $250,000 pre-emptive bid for the proposed book, to be titled, “Hush,” sources said.
The story is set in a futuristic world in which those in control of society use magic to manipulate the truth.
Farrow hatched the idea in collaboration with Glasstown Entertainment, which specializes in selling narrative storytelling across books and film platforms. InkWell Management’s Stephen
Barbara is said to be handling the literary auction.
In her painful family history, Farrow — the adopted daughter of Mia Far
row and Woody Allen — leveled explosive charges against Allen in 1992 that she was molested by the director when she was only a 7 year old.
Allen denied the claims then and was never charged in an investigation 25 years ago.
Glare on AMI
The heat has been turned up on American Media Inc. and CEO Da
vid Pecker in the wake of the guilty pleas of Michael Cohen, the former personal lawyer of President
Trump, to making illegal campaign contributions.
In a portion of the plea that is clearly a reference to Pecker, Cohen said he worked with “the CEO of a media company” to arrange a payment to buy the silence of one woman who claimed to have had an affair with Trump from revealing her allegations prior to the 2016 election.
Pecker and Trump are longtime friends.
AMI reportedly paid a “catch and kill” fee of $150,000 to former Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal — requiring a nondisclosure fee for telling her story about her alleged year-long dalliance with Trump elsewhere.
AMI owns the National Enquirer and other celebrity titles. None published McDougal’s story. She eventually sued for the right to void her NDA.
Cohen also admitted he directed a payment of $130,000 to another woman said to be Stephanie Clif
ford, aka Stormy Daniels, the porn actress, last year through a holding company for her silence about a longago fling with Trump.
AMI executives have reportedly been subpoenaed as part of the investigation into Cohen, but have not themselves been accused of any wrongdoing.
AMI had no official reaction to the Cohen news at press time.
W needs a home
Stefano Tonchi, the W editor-inchief, doesn’t have the money to buy the title — one of three put up for sale recently by Condé Nast — but thinks it could have a great future under a new owner.
The oversized glossy — which was cut back to eight issues a year — managed to avoid getting “Anna-fied” by an Anna Wintour makeover that hit so many other Condé titles, Tonchi told The Cut site of New York magazine.
While W avoided close Wintour scrutiny, it was also neglected by Tonchi’s corporate bosses. That’s why Tonchi welcomes a pending sale — and would like to be part of the process.
Condé is also selling Brides and Golf Digest.