![]() ![]() The financial terms of their settlement were not disclosed, but they have won a wide range of disclaimers in the preface to the book.īurroughs and his publisher have agreed to call Running with Scissors a book instead of a memoir and to express regret for "any unintentional harm" caused to the Turcottes.įuture editions of the book will also contain this acknowledgement from Burroughs: "I would like to thank the real-life members of the family portrayed in this book for taking me into their home and accepting me as one of their own. Turcotte sued Burroughs two years ago for $2 million US, claiming defamation, invasion of privacy and emotional distress over the book. The family of Northampton psychiatrist Rodolph H. ![]() ![]() This settlement is the most powerful vindication of those sentiments that we can imagine," the Turcotte family said in a statement released Wednesday. "We have always maintained that the book is fictionalized and defamatory. The family that claims it was defamed by Augusten Burroughs in his book Running with Scissors has reached a settlement with the author and his publisher that includes multiple disclaimers by the author. ![]()
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