Family as Mills's stable of artists was known, Hutchins closed his PR company to return to journalism. On 16 April 1977, the first of a series of ten articles about The Family was published in the Daily Mirror. On 19 April, Gordon Mills's lawyer, Michael Balin, tried to take out an injunction to prevent the stories but the Mirror took the case to the High Court where three judges, including Master of the Rolls Lord Denning, found in the newspaper's favour. Gordon Mills flew into Heathrow from Los Angeles threatening to punch Hutchins. The series added 180,000 to the Mirror circulation. In May 1981, Hutchins began the gossip column, Chris Hutchins Confidential in the Sunday Mirror. The column subsequently moved to the Daily Express in 1986 and the following year to Today when Rupert Murdoch bought the newspaper. In 1997, Confidential returned to the Sunday Mirror after then editor Bridget Rowe saw Hutchins pontificating on a subject on Sky News. The column was lastly revived in Punch, under the editorship of James Steen – who had been one of Hutchins's foot soldiers on Today – after Garth Gibbs, the former gossip columnist for the Daily Mirror left the magazine. Biographies After breaking the story of the Duchess of York's affair with the Texan oil billionaire Oscar Wyatt's son Steve, Hutchins wrote his first book Fergie Confidential. That was followed by Diana on the Edge, Elvis Meets the Beatles, Athina the Last Onassis, Goldsmith: Money, Women & Power and his autobiography Mr Confidential. Mark Bolland, the former deputy private secretary to The Prince of Wales, reviewed the book for British Journalism Review and wrote: "Chris Hutchins seems to have seen and done it all. As a young reporter he was censured by the NUJ for failing to be deferential enough to Prince Philip. He was there when Elvis met the Beatles. He helped turn Tom Jones into a superstar. He got drunk with Harold Wilson. And he helped Richard Branson take on British Airways." Hutchins was criticised by many in showbusiness for breaking confidences. Frank Sinatra was once quoted as saying, "Your secrets are safe with this guy Hutchins, it's the people he tells who are indiscreet." More recently he turned his attention to Russians Roman Abramovich and Vladimir Putin producing Abramovich: The Billionaire from Nowhere (with Dominic Midgley) and Putin A Biography. He returned to the British royal family in