by Patrick McGilligan. First published in the UK and then in the United States in 2002 by St. Martin's Press. Eastwood filed a $10 million libel action in U.S. District Court in San Jose, California against the author and publisher, claiming the book was riddled with fabrications and insulting statements and that at least one of the author's primary sources was dubious at best. In response, McGilligan, who had written unauthorized biographies on film personalities James Cagney, Jack Nicholson, and Fritz Lang, told the Associated Press that "He (Eastwood) has sued people religiously" and "He's made a career of suppressing dissidence." However, McGilligan and St. Martin's Press settled Eastwood's libel claim out of court and agreed to make changes to the book prescribed by Eastwood and agreed to remove certain claims in all future printings. In other cases such as that of celebrity biographer Cliff Goodwin, his book titled "Catherine Zeta-Jones: The Biography" was canceled by Virgin Books just a few weeks before its December 2003 scheduled release. Goodwin had previously made unsubstantiated claims about Catherine Zeta-Jones and her legal counsel notified the author and publisher that legal action would be instituted if the book was published. Some celebrity biographers Ellis Amburn Christopher Andersen David Bret Suzanne Finstad Albert Goldman Boze Hadleigh Laura Jackson Kitty Kelley James Robert Parish Lawrence J. Quirk Frank Sanello William Schoell Bob Spitz Donald Spoto See also Tabloid journalism References External links Clint Eastwood lawsuit The Publishing Law Center brief - "Publication of An Unauthorized Biography". BBC report on the Catherine Zeta-Jones canceled book see about eric mabius Biographers by topic