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Publisher Sues Lil' Kim, Foxy Brown

Posted Jul 25, 08 10:11 AM CDT in Gossip,  Arts & Living 

(AP) – Simon & Schuster Inc. sued rappers Foxy Brown and Lil' Kim yesterday, saying they were paid advances for books they never delivered. The publishing house wants Brown to return a $75,000 advance she received in 2005 for an autobiography called Broken Silence and wants Lil' Kim to return the $40,000 advance they doled out in 2003 for a proposed novel.

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Simon & Schuster says Lil' Kim never wrote the autobiography she was paid $75,000 to produce.   (AP Photo)
In this May 9, 2006 file photo, Lil' Kim whose birth name is Kimberly Jones, enters Manhattan federal court in New York. Simon & Schuster Inc. is suing rappers Foxy Brown and Lil' Kim, saying they were...   (Louis Lanzano)
In this Oct. 24, 2006 file photo, Rapper Foxy Brown, whose birth name is Inga Marchand, enters Manhattan criminal court in New York. Simon & Schuster Inc. is suing rappers Foxy Brown and Lil' Kim, saying...   (Louis Lanzano)
Foxy Brown didn't produce the novel she was paid $40,000 to write, says publishers Simon & Schuster.   (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano, file)
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