Because being the six million dollar woman simply wasn’t enough for Babs to bear, Page Six reports. The reason? “She wants money, money, money,” said one source, “as if that wasn’t enough.” Others feel it’s more about ego than money.
More specifically, Walters asked to be let out of her contract so that her agent, Mort Janklow, could potentially get more cash out of a publisher more likely to pay than did Miramax Books, who was scheduled to publish her memoirs. But as another source put it, “will her book really sell when she says the highlight of her career was the Begin-Sadat interview? And will she talk about her three husbands, her undying devotion to Roy Cohn, and all her many lovers including Sen. John Warner? Will anybody really care?”
More importantly, can a publisher really make enough money selling the book when the advance is already this high?