• justice

    Regan Sued By Dismissed Lawyers

    Judith Regan, former high-powered publisher with News Corp.'s HaperCollins, who notoriously carried on a gross affair with disgraced criminal former top cop Bernie Kerik in a Ground Zero apartment, and who was fired for, among other things, embarrassing the company with her O.J. Simpson book (and some alleged anti-Semitic comments), and who settled a wrongful dismissal suit with News Corp. for a rumored $20m–$25m (or maybe $10m) will need that money to pay off her old lawyers, whom she dismissed in favor of showbiz law legend Bert Fields. Regan's old lawyers at Dreier LLP say they worked 1,200 hours and received only $125,000. Fields says the suit brought by the old attorneys is without merit. And it was reported in Page Six, a happy part of the News Corp. cabal family. [NYP]

    9:59 AM on Tue Mar 4 2008
    By Pareene
    566 views, 11 comments

    Latest by famousauthor: When will she be able to get beyond these petty annoyances so she can help Monica Lewinsky's best friend Linda more »

  • update

    Judith Regan Wins Her Slanging Match

    The virtues of going quietly are much overstated. Book publisher Judith Regan, an incredibly aggressive executive in an incredibly passive industry, was offered $6m after being fired by her employer, Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. After she threatened to expose a call from a Murdoch henchman — urging her not to testify against her former lover, Bernie Kerik — the terms improved. Maybe she could have gotten a better deal if Kerik still had the potential to embarrass the former Republican front-runner, Rudy Giuliani. Even so, the rumored $20m-$25m payoff in today's settlement is a nice improvement over Murdoch's initial offer. (Update: Another source says more like $10m, though definitions may vary.) Even after legal fees, and a slanging match (anti-semite! Giu-lovers!) with some of the dirtiest players in politics and media. If anyone could out-slang Roger Ailes, the former Nixon aide who built up Fox News for Murdoch, it's Judith Regan.

    4:57 PM on Fri Jan 25 2008
    By Nick Denton
    878 views, 10 comments

    Latest by B4MURDOCH: I was her HS boyfriend. Men made her the way she is now and are still out to get her, more »

  • lawsuits

    Judith Regan Waited Too Long

    Judith Regan, the maverick publisher fired from Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation after she pressed ahead with a book by O.J. Simpson, has settled with her former employer. Regan is not an anti-Semite; Murdoch henchman, Roger Ailes, did not pressure her to keep quiet about her former lover, dodgy Giuliani aide Bernie Kerik; and O.J. is not guilty. Whatever. The only question: how much did Rupert Murdoch pay to make the increasingly deranged Regan Books founder shut up? Answer: not as much as she would would have received before the primaries began. Rudy Giuliani's campaign is faltering and, with it, Regan's leverage. It's moot whether Fox News creator and former Nixon aide, Ailes, pressured Regan to save the Giuliani's presidential bid. It's now beyond saving. Update: A newspaper source says Regan's settlement is $25m. Pah, nothing!

    2:56 PM on Fri Jan 25 2008
    By Nick Denton
    2,719 views, 25 comments

    Latest by sluggo: Judy's next book, "Anything, If I Did It". more »

  • rumormonger

    Tipster: FBI Agents Seek Judith Regan

    Anyone else hearing that FBI showed up to the McGraw-Hill building in Manhattan looking for Judith Regan? The Feds thought the controversial publishing impresario would be at the Sirius office, in the 6th Avenue skyscraper, for her Wednesday appearance on the satellite radio network, according to a tipster. But the show is pre-taped on Tuesday, so she wasn't there. The FBI agents told the Sirius receptionist they were sending a team to Regan's house as well. What on earth would they be looking for? More »

    4:42 PM on Wed Jan 23 2008
    By Nick Denton
    2,970 views, 18 comments

    Latest by ouiserboudreaux: Even money that Gawker's sightings could get her quicker than the FBI. more »

  • christmas

    Martha Stewart's Totally Sirius Christmas Tree

    As Page Six noted this week, the 36th-floor midtown lobby of Sirius Radio had a disastrous Christmas tree—until Martha Stewart came in herself and fixed it all up. And here it is! Can't wait to see how fellow Sirius host Judith Regan defaces this tree when she comes in to work next week. More »

    10:00 AM on Fri Dec 7 2007
    By Choire
    4,231 views, 28 comments

    Latest by JohnQPublic: @radiogrl1: Really? I was listening to Stern, who was marveling at Martha's generous tree offer. He said she walked by more »

  • wow

    Judith Regan's Top Secret Code Name Was "Giulietta Regan"

    "Probably my finest skill relates to art directing the process, which includes the design, the marketing, and the sales. The books on my list were so beautifully designed, I used to take art direction credits under a pseudonym—I didn't want anyone to know," fired publisher Judith Regan told the Observer last week. That pseudonym, according to a ReganBooks insider? "Giulietta Regan." Subtle! Then again, subtlety isn't exactly what we've come to expect from the woman who recently wrote in Harper's Bazaar that "the media" "came out, guns blazing, and tried to kill me" over the publication of O.J.'s confession. In that same self-profile, Judith talked about feeling "betrayed," when no one would come to her defense, but according to the same ReganBooks employee, "She talks about betrayal, but she bred betrayal." More »

    5:50 PM on Mon Nov 26 2007
    By Emily Gould
    2,742 views, 17 comments

    Latest by ADismalScience: She's a secret/a-gent bitch more »

  • thanksgiving

    A Gawker Thanksgiving

    Every year Gawker commenter and ad sales guy (and the best argument for abolishing the divide between editorial and advertising) LolCait has a super special Thanksgiving in his mind. There all of his and your favorite characters meet and dreams come true. This year Laurel Touby hosts. More »

    5:00 PM on Wed Nov 21 2007
    By Joshua Stein
    7,741 views, 159 comments

    Latest by PimpMyCouch: I am far too late to this party, but this is top-notch. LOLCait, any way you could also do this more »

  • wtf?

    Judith Regan's Still Big, It's The Settlements That Got Small

    Karaoke chanteuse and former publisher Judith Regan turned down a $6.5 million settlement from her former employer HarperCollins, we learned a few too many words into today's Observer cover storyHer lawyer says she found that number "unacceptable," but is Judy really motivated by a desire for more wrongful-termination money? Based on the nutty scope of her suit (bringing down Rudy Giuliani! etc) and its timing, this article posits, it seems like she's more concerned with grabbing the spotlight than the cash. Also, this is confusing: in Judith's article about herself in Harper's Bazaar, she claims that she wants her "life to get smaller now, not bigger." So why is she now doing the most attention-getting stuff possible? Hey, is Judith Regan, like, crazy or something? More »

    3:40 PM on Wed Nov 21 2007
    By Emily Gould
    3,397 views, 12 comments

    Latest by noseriously: You know, I woke up depressed today, but I have to say this is the best med ever. There is more »

  • martyrs

    Judith Regan Died For Your Sins

    "The media went on a rampage, blaming me for the whole O.J. book debacle. They came out, guns blazing, and tried to kill me. I felt like Faye Dunaway's character in the final scene of Bonnie and Clyde. Bullets flying in every direction," former publisher Judith Regan writes in her hotly-anticipated Harper's Bazaar profile of herself. You know, the one where she talks about having sung 'My Way!' It's on newsstands now, and it is all about how she "took the blows." In fact, this phrase comes up several times. In one instance she writes that something happened "after a month of taking the blows without protection." Shots! Blows! Attempts on Judith's very life! What is fact here and what's hyperbole? Does Judith Regan believe in distinguishing between the two? More »

    2:31 PM on Tue Nov 20 2007
    By Emily Gould
    4,089 views, 54 comments

    Latest by schmerd: @Colonel Mustard: wow, service-y (on both the Bonnie and Clyde and St. Sebastian refs) and insightful. Someone give this more »

  • kreepie cats

    Dane For Prez (And: Win A Date With Klonopin!)


    Click to enlarge! Also, after the jump: win a walk-on role in your favorite weekly web comic!
    Previously: Sex And The Kat City More »

    10:11 AM on Fri Nov 16 2007
    By Emily Gould
    1,612 views, 16 comments