HarperCollins said yesterday it will shutter its controversial Regan Books unit, closing the Los Angeles office on March 1 and scrapping a controversial novel about Mickey Mantle.
Judith Regan, the former head who had pushed the O.J. Simpson confessional novel “If I Did It,” was fired in December for allegedly making anti-Semitic remarks. Regan’s lawyer, Bert Fields, denied his client made such remarks.
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