Published: Friday - July 25, 2008
Words by Allen Starbury
Foxy Brown (Photo: Def Jam)
Female rappers, Foxy Brown and Lil Kim, were sued on Thursday (July 23) over books they never delivered to a New York publisher that were paid for in advance.
According to the Associated Press, Simon & Schuster Inc. claims they paid advances to both rappers -- $75,000 to Foxy Brown and $40,000 to Lil Kim -- for two separate books, but they were never delivered.
Brown was paid in 2005 to pen an autobiography called Broken Silence by February 2006, and Lil Kim was paid in 2003 for a novel due June 2004.
The publisher now wants its money back, and has filed two separate lawsuits to recoup the advances.
After signing the book deals, Foxy and Kim were both sent to prison. However, their incarceration times came some time after the deadline for the books came. Kim went to prison back in 2005, while Foxy served in 2007.
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