• Carly Simon, the 1970s pop star best known for her hit "You're So Vain," is writing a memoir about a surprising friendship she had with another very famous woman: former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. The "intimate, vulnerable" memoir was announced Monday by publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Simon will detail "the bond that grew between two iconic and starkly different American women," according to the book's publisher. "She arrived when I least expected to make a new friend and she stayed up until the time of her death," Simon said in a statement. The singer and Jackie O. met at a summer party on Martha's Vineyard, an encounter that led to an "improbable, but lasting friendship." Simon, 73, described Onassis, who died in 1994 at age 64, as both a "protective mother figure" and "mischievous pal." Onassis, who worked as a book editor in New York, also edited Simon's children's books published in the '80s and '90s. The new memoir, named Touched by the Sun after a Simon song, is scheduled to hit shelves on Oct. 22. In that song, released the same year Onassis died, Simon sings the lyrics: "I've got to learn from the greats/Earn my right to be living."
• An insurance company for imprisoned actor and comedian Bill Cosby has settled another lawsuit filed by a female accuser a week before Cosby was set to give a deposition in the case, prompting Cosby to call the insurer "complicit" in a scheme to destroy him. Former model Chloe Goins had accused Cosby of drugging and molesting her at a party at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles in 2008, when she was about 18. In a statement Tuesday, Cosby accused American International Group Inc. of "egregious behavior" in settling what he called a "frivolous" suit. "Mr. Cosby's legal team provided medical records, which showed that Mr. Cosby had undergone eye surgery and was in New York, recuperating at his home, at the time of the alleged events," he said in the statement, issued by spokesman Andrew Wyatt. Goins' lawsuit was filed in state court in Los Angeles. Goins' lawyers, Craig Goldenfarb and Spencer Kuvin, said their client was pleased with the confidential settlement. An AIG spokesman said the insurer had no comment. Cosby, 81, is serving a three- to 10-year prison term after a Pennsylvania jury last year found he drugged and molested a woman in 2004. Earlier this month, AIG settled defamation lawsuits filed by seven other Cosby accusers in Massachusetts, after losing a legal battle over their duty to defend Cosby in those cases.
A Section on 04/17/2019