Article: The False Allure of True-Story Books

"IVANA BETTER DEAL," screamed last week's inspired front-page headline in the New York Daily News, and no doubt before all the scrapping is over the lady-lady?- will indeed get the deal she wants. But if you think Ivana Trump is going to score big in her deliciously repulsive public spitting match with her soon-to-be-ex, just imagine what fortunes lie in wait for the innuMrable hack writers who doubtless are even now elbowing each other at the starting line in the race to corner the market with "Trump: The Split: The Book."

To be sure, word of contract signings has yet to hit the street, but rest assured that it will. If there is one certainty in the silly little world that book ...

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