It's A Million Little Pieces all over again. Margaret B. Jones, a biracial gangbanger who shared her story of running drugs in South Central L.A. in Love and Consequences — recently hailed by O, The Oprah Magazine as "a startlingly tender memoir" — has been revealed to actually be Margaret Seltzer, a well-off 33-year-old from the San Fernando Valley. The publisher says it is "saddened" by this deception, and is offering refunds to anyone who bought the book. The editor in chief of O, in turn, notes that while Love and Consequences "was a great read, we now know that it should have been classified as fiction."My question: Did "James Frey" ever buy drugs from "Margaret Jones"?
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Question: I know it's not like you can pick up the phone and ask her or anything, but your answer about Barbara Stock leaving Spenser and then coming back reminded me of a question that's sort of the same. How come Oprah stopped doing her book club on Oprah Winfrey, then started it up again? Did she run out of books she liked or something?
Answer: She didn't run out of books, Katie; she ran out of time — or thought she had, anyway. And I may not be able to pick up the phone and call, but luckily Oprah already talked about it in a TV Guide interview
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A Million Little Pieces fan Bruce Willis says that author James Frey was "sucker-punched" by Oprah Winfrey during the recent flap over the "memoir." On iFMagazine.com, Willis shouts out, "'Hey, Oprah. You had President Clinton on your show and if this p---k didn't lie about a couple of things, I'm going to set myself on fire.' It's just shameful how [Frey] was treated." Willis also blames the tabloids that perpetuated Frey's persecution. "They lie about people and just make up s--- all week long, and you have to sue them to get it changed. [And yet] no one is yelling at them." Well, no one other than you and Mr. Cruise.
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