Fantasia’s father not happy about her “Fairy Tale”
Fantasia’s father, Joseph Barrino, has sued the American Idol winner for supposedly making up parts of her New York Times best selling 2005 memoir Fantasia: Life Is Not a Fairytale.
The American Idol winner’s dad, Joseph Barrino, sued publisher Simon & Schuster for $10 million Tuesday, alleging that the 2005 memoir Fantasia: Life Is Not a Fairytale contains “false, exaggerated, sensational, intentional and malicious untruths.”
He also claims that it was actually Fantasia’s grandmother, Addie Collins, who wrote the book, not Fantasia.
Joseph Barrino has sued publisher Simon and Schuster for $10 million dollars.
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October 1st, 2006 at 9:17 pm
[…] Hot on the heels of Joe Barrino’s lawsuit comes news that her ghost writer of her best selling memoir Fantasia: Life Is Not a Fairytale, Kim Green, now wants recognition for the fact she was the one who wrote the book. She talked exclusively with RadarOnline. Barrino’s Life Is Not a Fairy Tale, published in October 2005, sold more than 48,000 copies and made the New York Times non-fiction best-seller list. But Green, who was paid only $45,000 for her efforts, has received no credit for it, nor for the Lifetime movie it inspired, which aired on the network last month. She even had to buy her own ticket to a concert Barrino gave in Atlanta recently. “I just think it’s a terrible statement about the entertainment business,” she adds. […]