Joseph Barrino filed a $10 million libel
suit against Simon & Schuster, the publishers
of his daughter's book, Life is Not a Fairy Tale.
Joe alleges the book contains false, exaggerated,
sensational, intentional and malicious untruths.
He's mad cause the book claims he was more
interested in his daughter's singing career than her
schooling, that he always asks for money when she visits,
and that he was hostile toward the music industry. He also
claims that although Fantasia is listed as the author, it
was really her granmama, Addie Collins, who did the writing.
Here's the funny part though, Fantasia is not listed in the suit.
So he's basically suing the printer, not the person who actually
wrote all the s**t. Kinda makes every allegation seem true, right?