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A lawsuit involving the three surviving children of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King is threatening to derail a $1.4 million deal for a book on their mother.
The New York-based Penguin Group agreed to pay $1.2 million plus royalties to King Inc., which controls the civil rights icon's intellectual property. The publisher would pay another $200,000 to the Rev. Barbara Reynolds, who taped conversations with Mrs. King before she died in January 2006.
This week, Penguin said it would terminate the contract and demand the return of a $300,000 advance if the publisher does not receive photos, personal writing and letters within seven business days.
A message was left Friday with Penguin general counsel Karen Mayer.
The lawsuit -- the third among the three siblings in as many months -- was filed Sept. 24 in Fulton County probate court. Bernice King is listed as plaintiff and administrator of her mother's estate, and the estate of Martin Luther King Jr., which Dexter King controls, is listed as the defendant.
The siblings are feuding over whether the documents should be turned over. Bernice King and Martin Luther King III maintain that their mother no longer wanted to work with Reynolds on the book. They are asking that the documents be distributed among Coretta Scott King's heirs and not given to the publisher.
Dexter King, president and chief executive officer of King Inc., signed the book contract.
Craig Frankel, Dexter King's personal attorney, said his client was within his rights to sign the contract and had discussed the deal with his siblings.
"He signed the contract, but that's his job," Frankel said. "No one questioned when they got their share of the sale from the King papers whether Dexter had the authority to sign a contract. Nobody complained when they got their millions."
Also at issue is whether Coretta Scott King's biography is part of King Inc., since it was not part of the 10,000-document collection auctioned by Sotheby's in 2006 in a $32 million, eleventh-hour deal brokered by the city of Atlanta. The siblings have received equal shares of the money.
Coretta Scott King died in January 2006.
Jock Smith, an attorney for Bernice and Martin Luther King III, said his clients had no knowledge of the book deal until they were asked to turn over the documents a few weeks ago.
"This basically comes down to a situation where Dexter has done things on his own," Smith said.
Smith added that such actions were the basis for a separate lawsuit filed in July by Bernice and Martin Luther King III attempting to force their brother to open the books of their father's estate. In August, Dexter King sued them, alleging that they each established foundations that compete with The King Center.
All the cases could be resolved before they make it to a courtroom, though prospects for a meeting between the estranged siblings were unclear.
"Ideally, I don't think anybody is opposed to discussion, but that has to start with a board meeting to rectify the wrongs that have occurred here," Smith said. "I'll tell you this: There has been no meeting called since the death of Coretta Scott King."
Source: AP
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Michael King...aka Martin Luther King, was a low life, whore mongering, Communist, criminal, plagiarizing FRAUD, who was GIVEN a fake PhD by liberal Communists trying to give him more credibility.
The fact is...when the thousands of FBI files on Mike King are released...everyone WILL KNOW THE TRUTH
and NO...it's not the FBI that was "corrupt" and just picking on poor lil 'ol Mike King...no no...
the FBI is not to blame for recording Mike Kings drunken, drug using, whore mongering with white whores or cheating on his wife, or beating up women, both black and white. His womanizing and whore mongering was well know even to casual acquaintances..his close associate know him even more intimately.
The FBI is not to blame for Mike King being a member of dozens...not just one, but DOZENS of Communist front groups, the Communist Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tennessee being just ONE Mike King was a member of.
ALL of this will be made VERY clear...if you don't already know about this monstrous fraud that has been committed against the American people...
YOU WILL!!!
read just a sample of the truth hear.
We've all heard the Politically Correct lies that have been pounded into our brains for decades...now hear the other side of the story...the truth about Michael King
read it here
http://www.martinlutherking.org/thebeast.html
or simply Google "martinlutherking.org" and read "the beast as saint"
There are MANY good, honest, decent black men who have TRIED to teach their people the awful truth about this fraud. But the whites in power want to keep using MLK as a martyr and created a national holiday for him to placate blacks...
NO OTHER MAN IN AMERICAN HISTORY HAS A HOLIDAY NAMED FOR THEM!!!
NONE!!!
NOT GEORGE WASHINGTON, THE FOUNDING FATHER, REVOLUTIONARY WAR HERO/GENERAL,WHO FOUNDED AMERICA AND HELPED CREATE IT'S CONSTITUTION, WHO FOUGHT THE BRITISH EMPIRE AND WON AMERICAS FREEDOM AND ACTUALLY ESTABLISHED THE FIRST COUNTRY GOVERNED BY FREE MEN AND NOT KINGS, THE FIRST EVER IN WORLD HISTORY!!
NOT THOMAS JEFFERSON WHO WAS ONE OF THE LEADING FOUNDING FATHERS AND WHO WROTE AMERICAS CONSTITUTION!!!
NOT ABRAHAM LINCOLN WHO ACTUALLY FREED BLACKS AND GAVE BLACK MEN THE RIGHT TO VOTE EVEN DECADES BEFORE WHITE WOMEN GOT THE RIGHT TO VOTE!!!
NOT ANY OF THE MANY GREAT MEN WHO ACTUALLY WERE GREAT AMERICAN HERO'S!!
NO...ONLY MICHAEL KING AKA MARTIN LUTHER KING IS THE ONLY MAN TO HAVE A NATIONAL HOLIDAY IN HIS NAME!!!
EVEN JESUS CHRIST HAS BEEN MOCKED AND NOW CHRISTMAS IS BEING SHUT OUT OF PUBLIC LIFE, SCHOOLS, BUSINESSES, GOVERNMENT PROPERTY, PUBLIC PROPERTY AND IS NOW REFERED TO AS "WINTER BREAK" IN OUR DEGENERATE PUBLIC SCHOOL HOLIDAY CALENDERS...YOU CAN THINK LIBERAL COMMUNIST, CHRIST HATING, CHRISTIAN HATING LIBERAL COMMUNIST JEWS FOR THAT!!
MANY JEWS OF COURSE ARE SICK OF WHAT THEIR JEWISH BRETHREN HAVE DONE TO AMERICA...THEY MADE MICHEAL KINGS ENTIRE CAREER POSSIBLE IN FACT!!
There are so many more worthy black men who were so much better than that crooked sleazeball Michael King!! There are black men alive NOW, TODAY who's moral decency and goodness put Mike King to absolute SHAME!!!
BUT...the sheeple are kept in the dark about this reality!!!
not for much longer...the truth...the reality...is getting out now!!!
Hiding the truth...the evidence...is IMPOSSIBLE now!!
There is NO TRUTH so horrible that I would fear for people to hear!!
Let's hear the truth about Mike King NOW!!!
Why was the FBI even FORCED to classify all the damning evidence against Mike King IF IT DID NOT HURT HIS BS TOTALLY FABRICATED, TOTAL LIE OF AN IMAGE AND PROVEN ALL THE LIES TO BE FALSE...IF IT IS NOTHING NEGATIVE ABOUT MIKE KING IN ANYWAY...THEN WHY HIDE THE EVIDENCE FROM THE PEOPLE!!