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The publisher’s lawsuit filed in Manhattan says did not return the US$70,000 advance.

Gotti’s literary agent Frank Weiman says he’ll get another deal for his client, and then she’ll give back the money to the publisher.

Jim McKay, a veteran sports television broadcaster who brought the drama of the Olympic games to millions of Americans, has died, US media reported on Saturday.

McKay died of natural causes at his home in Maryland, his family said in a statement. He was 86.

McKay was the amiable face of ABC’s Wide World of Sports, the most successful sports program in US television history, and hosted coverage of 12 Olympic games.

His poised minute-by-minute reporting from the 1972 Munich Olympics, in which members of the Israeli team were taken hostage and murdered, won him accolades and awards, including two Emmys and the George Polk Award.

He was inducted into the US Olympic Hall of Fame in 1988.

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