Bet You Didn’t Know: Secrets Behind The Making Of “Disappearing Acts”

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Legal Troubles

As you know the original story was inspired by McMillan’s real life relationship with Leonard Welch, the father of her son Solomon. And apparently, Welch didn’t take too kindly to being used in this way. He filed a defamation of character suit again McMillan, claiming that the character Franklin, was fashioned, maliciously, after him. He said the characterization of Franklin gave the impression that Leonard himself was “hostile, angry and lazy,” “a racist,” a man who “drinks on the job” and is “intolerant toward homosexuals,” a “stool pigeon,” a “rapist,” “drug user” and a “a man who is crazy and sick.” The book sold 2 million copies and Welch claimed it affected the way people looked at him. He filed a $4.75 million lawsuit against McMillan Penguin and Simon and Schuster. He lost. 

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