URIS TOLD TO SPLIT ROYALTIES ON BOOK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01350R000200660002-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 22, 2004
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: February 10, 1972
• Content Type: NSPR

LOS ANGELES TIMES
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(iris Told to Split.
Royalties on Book
Novelist Leon Uri must give up
half of more than $1 million in
proceeds from the book "Topaz" to
his French-born collaborator. Phil-
lippe de Vosjoli, under a decision re-
turned Wednesday in Superior
Court.
Judge Howard H. Schmidt ruled
that De Vosjoli, 51. for many years
- had of the French Secret Service in
Washington, D.C., was entitled to
half the royalties from publication
of the book and from its sale for a
motion picture.
Now living in. 1liami. De Vosjoli
said that under a contract signed
May 27, 196;5. the novelist promised
him half of all income from the. book
in exchange for material De Vosjoli
had prepared and which was based
on his experiences during the 1962
Cuban missile crisis.
But De. Vosjoli complained that
Cris, 47, had paid him only S65,000.
Uris now resides in Aspen, Colo.
The court directed, that $161,050
must be paid' De Vos,joli immediate-
ly, with 7?o interest from various
dates beginning Jan. 15, 1968. when
the suit said Uris ceased sharing
royalties.
Payment of $191,300, the judge de-
creed, must be made by assignment
from Uris of 50~o royalties coming,
from the "Topaz" publisher, Bantam
Books, Inc.
Also provided in the decision were
future accountings of proceeds, with
-De Vosjoli to receive half of them.
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