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W HEN Y OU’ RE

ATTACKED, B ITE B ACK

A Book a nd a Laws uit

hen you’ve spent 40 years building a brand that is known
Wworldwide, and then someone publishes a book that
denounces your worth and damages your image and reputation,
and in a scathing way, it becomes a serious issue.
There is a writer with the New York Times named Tim
O’Brien who had written some very negative articles about me. I
didn’t like him, and I didn’t respect him as a writer because his
facts were so incorrect and his articles were so viciously nega-
tive. Then I heard he was doing a book about me—and I was
told he would write it with or without my cooperation—so it
seemed in my best interests to work with him so his facts would
be correct. I already knew he was bad news, but I was very cor-

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