Less than a month after squashing her plans to publish O.J. Simpson's If I Did It, Rupert Murdoch has fired HarperCollins' Judith Regan, the Guardian reports. Apparently it went down in classic evil-rich-people fashion:
The statement was distributed on Friday evening as 4,000 revellers were descending on the Christmas party of Mr Murdoch's News Corp – the parent company – at a Manhattan hotel. It was engineered so swiftly that employees of her HarperCollins unit in Los Angeles had no idea of their boss's fate. Guests at the New York party were also reportedly unaware that she had lost her job.
Apparently it wasn't all about the O.J. book; the Los Angeles Times offers more details here.
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