Here is another interesting tidbit I found in case anyone thinks Wilson is making tons of money off book sales. It's from an article titled "Quest for Best Seller means Lots of Returned Books", June 3, 2005. (I'm sorry, I meant to write down the name of the author but I forgot. He's from the Wall Street Journal.)
"Even mid-size publishers sometimes reach for the brass ring.In April 2004, Avalon publishing Group Inc. issued "The Politics of Truth:Inside the Lies that led to War and Betrayed my Wife's CIA Identity," by former US Ambassador Joseph Wilson. At the time books about politics were selling well, and Avalon, eager to deliver as many copies as quickly as possible, printed a 100,000. Shortly before the publication date, April 30, it went back to the presses for an additional 25,000.
Just as the book was hitting the best-seller lists, public attention switched to allegations of abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison. Although "The Politics of Truth" enjoyed good sales, Charles Winton, Avalon's CEO, says he's now sitting on 60,000 copies, including many that have been returned. The second printing cost at least $60,000, he says, none of which has yet recouped. Mr. Winton says he had to gamble: "You sell a lot of books, but there's also a lot of waste."
www.postgazette.com/pg/05154/515469.stm
This afternoon I have been trying very hard but unsuccessfully to track down a transcript for The Chris Matthew Show for July 17, 2005. My husband was sure Wilson was on that morning (or maybe July 24) and Matthews asked him how his book was doing. The response was something like "very well and it's going to get better." However according to the above only slightly more than half of those printed, 65,000 were sold--probably a lot of them to libraries. That dosn't sound very "good' to me. A big grocery chain I shop at put out a pile of them last summer before the election and a couple of months ago the amount did not look much different and now they are gone--not sold, just cleeared out and maybe sent back to Mr. Winton.
The Watergate is now being turned completely into condos and they are very expensive. I was trying to get some idea of how much rent would be for an apartment suite but I couldn't find anything to reference to the apartment complex before some company took over renovating the hotel last year I think. The hotel suites ran $6000-over $7000 a month according to the hotel's website--I can't imagine Valerie paying that kind of rent.
Isn't Jacqueline C. Wilson his second wife's name? The age seems about right. Why in the world would she be listed? Did she buy the house for them? That is very weird!
I'm not surprised his book of lies is tanking. Liberals don't read, and they're cheap as all get out. And I would expect Wilson to lie about his book sales.
As to Jacqueline C. Wilson--I don't know who she is. Seems I've heard it said Wilson married twice before marrying Valerie, but his bio only lists a wife named Susan Dale Otchis whom he divorced in 1986. Maybe someone can help out on this point.
If you search for 2700 Virginia Avenue NW Washington DC, you will find hits for the Watergate West apartment complex. I found several sales of apartments there. Can't say about rent, but about any house in the DC area would start at about $2,000/month and go up. I wouldn't be surprised to see rental in the Watergate in the several $K/month range.
That is indeed strange. The Vanity Fair article stated,
"The Wilsons live in the Palisades, an affluent neighborhood of Washington, D.C., on the fringe of Georgetown. In winter, when the trees have no leaves, the back of their house has a stunning view of the Washington Monument. They’d first seen the house in 1998, when it was still being built, and they had instantly fallen in love with it. Even so, Plame took some persuading before they made an offer. “She’s very frugal,” explains Wilson. “My brother who’s in real estate had to fly in from the West Coast and explained that a mortgage could cost less than our rented apartment in the Watergate.” Plame also told Wilson that she’d be moving with him into the new house only as his wife."<.p
Records show that Wilson and his second wife, Jacqueline, to whom he was married for 12 years, were divorced in 1998. By the mid-90s, Wilson says, that relationship had pretty much disintegrated. “Separate bedrooms-and I was playing a lot of golf,” he says."
This does get curiouser and curiouser. How did they come up with the money for the house (they were renting at the Watergate) and were they (Valerie) the first occupants? Since Wilson got divorced in 1998, it is odd that she would be listed as the owner of the property.