Publishing company HarperCollins announced this week that it is dropping plans to carry a forthcoming book by disgraced CNN host Chris Cuomo after his fall-out with the network.
“I can confirm that we don’t intend to publish the book,” a spokesperson for HarperCollins told the New York Post this week.
Cuomo was fired from CNN over the weekend after it was discovered that he used his journalistic position to help his brother, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, respond to allegations of sexual harassment. A report by New York Attorney General Letitia James’s office found that Chris Cuomo asked his sources to find out who his brother’s accusers were.
Cuomo’s book, “Deep Denial,” was supposed to be published on Dec. 15 of next year. A description of the book says it would have provided “a provocative analysis of the harsh truths that the pandemic and Trump years have exposed about America—about our strength and our character—and a roadmap of the work needed to make our ideals match reality.”
Cuomo has not weighed in on HarperCollins’s announcement. But he does plan to sue CNN over the remainder of the four-year contract he signed last year, according to sources familiar with the matter. The four-year deal is worth $18 million in total with $6 million remaining on the last year of the deal.
However, CNN insiders insisted the network won’t pay him another penny.
“CNN has a standard morality clause in their contract that says if the employee does anything of disrepute, they can be immediately fired,” a source told the New York Post.
Cuomo also announced he would be leaving his recurring radio program on SiriusXM.
— Christopher C. Cuomo (@ChrisCuomo) December 6, 2021
