Courtney Love's mother may be getting sued by Hank

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To:Random House, Inc.
Doubleday Legal Department

1745 Broadway New York, N.Y. 10019


October 4, 2005


En Re: Slander and Libel of client G. H. Harrison AKA Hank Harrison
en re: Courtney Love


Dear Sirs:

Recently Fox News Network broadcast defamatory and libelous language designed to hurt our client. This Fox broadcast aired several times in Seattle, Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay area and Oklahoma City to name only a few of the markets.


Fox denies they aired this information maliciously and claim they derived the objectionable comments from a press release sent out by your publicist. This press release was written and distributed to thousands of recipients in order to publicize a forthcoming Doubleday book by Mr. Harrison's ex-wife, Linda Carroll.


The specific objectionable material deals with the allegations that our client gave his daughter, (Courtney Love) "Magic Pills." This implies illicit and abusive drugs and further implies our client is evil. Another vicious comment comes in the form of the line to wit: ..."and he had painted her "naked body" with graffiti, (our emphasis added) or words to that effect. There is also a comment, elsewhere in the book, that our client abandoned his daughter at age seven when in fact she was illegally adopted from him after strenuous court battles after which the child was removed out of state and to New Zealand.


We do not, at this time, seek monetary damages or injunctive relief against Doubleday. At this time, we seek a simple redress. Although we realize it is late in the publication cycle, we require that you modify the objectionable material in the galleys or page proofs, or plates, if already at the plate stage. We realize this is difficult, we ask only that you make minor edits that may require minimum line or page changes.


We hereby request a full set of galleys or if that is objectionable we request that you send us all pages that reflect on, pertain to, mention by name, nickname, or pen name of our client, by Express Mail.


Doubleday's failure to fact check comments like the above and to slant the comments toward our client is clearly designed to purposefully and maliciously defame his reputation.


Needless to say our client’s business, and his wife's business (she works with children) would be irreparably damaged, to say nothing of the damages to our client himself.


In spite of what Doubleday has been told by their authors or editors, Mr. Harrison has been listed in Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the World for more than ten years, is a well educated and innovative writer and has won several grants and awards. He is not a dangerous or pathological person as portrayed in your forthcoming book. Moreover he will take a polygraph examination on any contested point at your request.


If we cannot reach an immediate compromise on these matters we will be forced to seek remedies in legal filings and injunctive relief.


Time is of the essence


Thank you for you immediate attention to these matters
Robert Marlowe Esq. cc/ghh Offices of Melvin Belli Esq.


Comments by Attorneys:


These events are astounding to us. How could a mainstream publisher like Doubleday allow such shoddy and actionable writing and editing?


Mrs. Carroll has her own demons to fight and we doubt slandering our client will shift the blame or reduce the guilt she feels for the abuse of her daughter.

hankharrison.com/Alphas/Htmlib/Doubleday.html

[cryingshame]

That's a d@mn shame! It's her parent's fault that she's f*cked up in the head anyway. Of course Clove should be held accountable for her actions but this is just too much drama. Her mother abandon her when she was little and her own father thinks that she had Kurt snuffed. It's nothing but he said/she said b*llnuts.

[guilty]

They are both f*cked up.

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