Jerry Hall Signs With HarperCollins

Posted on October 12, 2007

HarperCollins has signed a book deal with supermodel Jerry Hall for an "explosive" memoir.

Agent Ed Victor agreed the deal for an undisclosed sum with Harper Non-fiction m.d. Belinda Budge and the company's US senior vice president Jonathan Burnham. According to the publisher, the book "takes a candid look at [Hall's] experiences as a young model from Gonzalez, Texas; her marriage to Mick Jagger and her life in the rock �n roll fast lane," and promises to be an "explosive" read.

"Jerry is a force of nature," said Jane Friedman, HC's global president and chief executive. "She is a vibrant, happy woman with a great sense of humor whose life story contains the unexpected and makes for a riveting read."

Victoria Barnsley, chief executive and publisher of HC UK, added: "Jerry is one of life's great survivors. She's also very funny. I've no doubt her book will be highly entertaining and illuminating both about her own remarkable life and the extraordinary world she's lived in. I'm delighted to be publishing it."

If she's willing to really dish the dirt, it should sell quite well. Although you'd think that they would have had a confidentiality clause in the divorce settlement with Mick Jagger. That is the kind of clause that is holding up the divorce settlement between Paul McCartney and Heather Mills. She turned down a $100 million+ settlement because she wants to talk about their marriage in a book and on talk shows.

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