LONDON (AP) — Author Salman Rushdie is threatening to sue a publisher over a book by a former bodyguard that he says portrays him as cheap, nasty and arrogant and depicts his police guards as drinking on duty…
Rushdie told The Guardian that the book portrayed him as “mean, nasty, tight-fisted, arrogant and extremely unpleasant.” “In my humble opinion, I am none of those things.” He said Evans’ claims were “fictitious” and “absurd.”
“I am not trying to prevent him from publishing this stupid book, but if they publish it there will be consequences and there will be a libel action,” Rushdie was quoted as saying.
