
After weeks of speculation about which publisher would score Keith Richards’ forthcoming autobiography, the deal is officially closed. Little, Brown and Company will publish Richards’ life story in 2010, and the guitarist is already apparently working on the memoir with James Fox, a writer and close friend. The publishing house paid a whopping $7.3 million for the book. So, how does Richards’ paycheck compare to other major non-fiction book deals?
- Republican presidental hopeful Rudy Giuliani received a reported $3 million for the rights to his autobiography
- O.J. Simpson was paid a reported $3.5 million for the dubiously titled (and most likely doomed) O.J. Simpson: If I Did It Here’s How It Happened
- Kurt Cobain’s Journals sold for a reported $4 million
- Newt Gingrich was paid a reported $4.5 million to tell his story
- Eric Clapton reportedly received $5 million for his forthcoming book
- Marlon Brando was paid a reported $5 million for his autobiography
- Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s memoir Living History earned her a reported $8 million
- Former chairman of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan was paid a reported $8.5 million for The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World
- Bill Clinton’s My Life landed him a reported $10 million, still the largest advance ever for a non-fiction book

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