The departing verdicts after Brown 's '' New Yorker '' tenure included : Tina Brown next created '' Talk '' magazine , a monthly glossy , and appointed Jonathan Burnham and Susan Mercandetti to manage Talk Books . The magazine was due to be launched during a party at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York City but was banned by the mayor Rudy Giuliani , who did not feel it was an appropriate use of the site . The star-studded event mixing political leaders , writers and Hollywood , was then moved to Liberty Island , where on 2 August 1999 more than 800 guests – including Madonna , Salman Rushdie , Demi Moore and George Plimpton - arrived by barge for a picnic dinner at the feet of the Statue of Liberty under thousands of Japanese lanterns and a Grucci fireworks display . An interview with Hillary Clinton in its very first issue caused an immediate political sensation when she claimed that the abuse her husband suffered as a child led to his adult philandering . '' The Washington Post '' reported that at times , " '' Talk '' seemed more interested in promoting such Miramax stars as Gwyneth Paltrow than in politics . " Despite having achieved a circulation of 670,000 '' Talk '' magazine 's publication was abruptly halted in January 2002 in the wake of the advertising recession following the 9/11 attacks . It was Brown 's first very public failure but she had no regrets about embarking on the project . She told Charlotte Edwardes of '' The Telegraph '' in 2002 : " My reputation rests on four magazines – three great successes , one that was a great experiment . I do n't feel in any way let down . No big career does n't have one flame out in it and there 's nobody more boring than the undefeated . " Talk Media was founded in July 1998 by Miramax Films , Tina Brown and Ron Galotti to publish books and Talk magazine and produce television programs . Talk Media formed a joint venture with Heart Magazines for the magazine only in February 1999 . Brown worked with the book division 's editor-in chief Jonathan Burnham . She recalled in October 2017 at the time of allegations of sexual assault being made against Harvey Weinstein : " Strange contracts pre-dating us would suddenly surface , book deals with no deadline attached authored by attractive or nearly famous women . " '' Politico '' estimated that Brown had " bombed through some $ 50 million in 2 years " on the failed venture . A $ 1 million contract settlement in 2002 ended Brown 's involvement in Talk Media
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