Posted on 11/17/2006 9:02:50 AM PST by Dr. Scarpetta
Once, Judith Regan's taste in men was Bernard Kerik. Now her taste in authors is O.J. Simpson. She was much better off on Kerik's side of the law. To have a reputation decline faster than hers, you have to be on a bobsled run.
Soon, Regan publishes a new book from Simpson that is supposed to hint at how he might have stabbed two people to death, one of them his ex-wife.
Regan also interviews Simpson next week on the Fox network. Regan says what she gets out of Simpson amounts to a "confession."
The truth is, she is the one who reveals herself. She was better off sneaking around with Kerik in the old days.
Oh, sure. You want to start understanding Regan? Start at a building known as Liberty View, at Battery Place and West Thames St., Battery Park City.
It is a couple of blocks from Ground Zero, and apparently it was here, in those first months when the cleanup of Ground Zero had begun in 2001, when it wasn't just toxic fumes in the air. It was love as well, between Kerik and Regan, frisky publishers.
Originally, some of the apartments at Liberty View were donated by the Milstein real estate people as places where rescue workers and Red Cross staffers could rest. Later, though, Kerik wanted to rent a two-bedroom apartment for himself.
With good reason, now that we know what catnip he was to the ladies. If all the stories from that time are true, and nobody has ever denied them, Kerik was probably more tired than a whole downtown block of rescue workers.
Kerik - Rudy Giuliani's hand-picked police commissioner and later a truly wretched nominee as Homeland Security director - was still police commissioner at the time, still married and living in Riverdale.
In addition to those duties, he had Regan, who had published his best-selling autobiography, as a girl on the side, along with a female Correction Department officer.
"A very close relationship," is the way Kerik described his relationship with Regan, back in the news now with another author who used to be somebody: O.J. Simpson.
We know all about him. There is nothing Simpson won't do for attention or money.
Now he writes this book for Regan called "If I Did It," in which he is supposed to hypothetically tell how he would have stabbed his ex-wife Nicole along with a kid named Ron Goldman, who wandered into the dark alley that is Simpson's brain one night in Brentwood, Calif., 12 years ago and ended up bleeding to death on the sidewalk along with Nicole Brown Simpson.
In those 12 years, during which O.J. was acquitted in his murder case but was hit big in a civil case filed by the Brown and Goldman families, he has revealed himself to be as dumb as the dumb cop he used to play in the "Naked Gun" movies.
You bet we know all about him. But know something else: He does not get back into play now, get a $3.5 million book deal and two hours of television time on the Fox Network -- owned by the same company that owns ReganBooks - without help. The help comes from Judith Regan.
Once she held hands for real with Kerik. Now she takes the hand of O.J. Simpson and walks him back into the spotlight. As she does, here is the question for her and about her:
If she will do this, with a bottom feeder like O.J. Simpson, what won't she do? If this isn't her own bottom, then what is?
Of course Simpson was going to write a book like this someday, when he ran out of money, again. He's sold everything else, including the Heisman Trophy he won at the University of Southern California as one of the great running backs of all time.
You knew he would finally sell himself, some version of the real truth of that June night in 1994 when Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman ended up dead at 875 South Bundy Drive.
When he was ready to sell, Judith Regan was buying. You don't talk about O.J. from now on without talking about her.
When Regan moved her business to California, she was quoted as saying she wanted to "bring a different idea of culture to Southern California." Now here it is, with O.J. Simpson.
You read back on her, an old article written about her in Vanity Fair by Judith Newman, and see a former employee at ReganBooks, Kristin Kiser, quoted as saying Regan considered herself an advocate for "women who have been victimized. She looks at it as a calling."
You would think Nicole Brown Simpson would qualify in this area, dead of multiple stab wounds at 875 South Bundy Drive.
Regan has been a huge success in publishing for a long time, and not just with the kind of trash she gives us now, under the idiotic guise of getting a "confession" out of Simpson, as if anybody needed one.
She has published everybody from Gen. Tommy Franks and Wally Lamb to Rush Limbaugh and Jenna Jameson, who wrote "How to Make Love Like a Porn Star" for her.
She once got hysterical because Monica Lewinsky took her book to another house. Maybe she was just offended that Lewinsky went into the room with Bill Clinton for nothing.
Regan is another, then, who will do anything to be rich and famous. In that way, maybe it is as inevitable that she would end up in a room with O.J. Simpson, doing this interview, as it was that she would hook up with Bernie Kerik at Liberty View.
It turns out Regan only thought she had reached Ground Zero in those days. Finally, with O.J., she makes it all the way.
Good. Regan deserves all the mud that's coming her way from this. (and none of the money.)
Bernard Kerik
Did you hear that she's been writing about being abused, and that's why she had to do this.
Somehow I missed that gem.
She's a solid gold-plated piece of work.
I read that via the Drudge story posted on another thread. Do you think it is a lie?
Apparently Regan is a troubled woman. There's a fictional book coming out based on her antics by a former employee.
Obviously, she is troubled. But do you think she was abused by her ex-husband?
It's called free speech, and conservatives ought to know what it's like to have it infringed.
The price you pay for your own free speech rights is the right of scumbags like OJ to make a disgusting spectacle of himself for the Jerry Springer/Oprah Winfrey crowd.
"A wickedly savage fictional book about Judith Regan is making the rounds in Hollywood and among gleeful ex-employees of the 52-year-old publishing terror."
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/col/story/424174p-357731c.html
Based on what little I know, I wouldn't be surprised to learn that she mentally and physically abused her ex-husband.
I wondered if Kerik would try to protect her from the death threats.
Hmmmmm. Reminds me of the Kitty Kelly fiction about Nancy Reagan. Not that Reagan and Regan should be compared. It does make me wonder what is fiction and what is not.
Not to defend Ms. Regan or anything, but the Daily News is locked in mortal combat with Murdoch and the NY Post. They are desperate and have the knives out for anything News Corp.
Based on what little I know, Ms. Reagan is not a very nice person. Most of my information comes from my wife who used to work with her for a number of years.
I do agree with your point regarding free speech.
"Because She Can" (Hardcover)
by Bridie Clark, former employee of Judith Regan who wrote a fictional account of their relationship. The book is due out in the winter.
http://www.amazon.com/Because-She-Can-Bridie-Clark/dp/0446579246/sr=8-1/qid=1163784819/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-9880502-7615918?ie=UTF8&s=books
Does your wife know Bridie Clark, author of the fictional book about Regan?
The reviews make it sound like an entertaining book. Wonder if Judith Regan's employees laugh at her.
Has anyone seen anything that would explain how OJ or his various advisors think he is going to get to keep this $3.5 million he is allegedly going to be paid? OJ gets to keep his house because Florida law doesn't allow a residence to be siezed by creditors. He gets to keep his NFL pension because California law doesn't allow creditors to sieze pension assets or payments. However there is no law I can think of that would protect $3.5 million in compensation for a book deal from creditors. Assuming the Goldmans and Nicole's family have good lawyers and are highly motivated, both of which I believe to be true, they should have little trouble attaching and siezing any compensation flowing to OJ out of this deal. Which brings me around to the next obvious question. Why on earth is OJ doing this if he is unlikely ever to see dime one from the whole thing?
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