Here’s a prediction and you don’t have to be psychic to make it: now that she is basically acquitted in a controversial jury decision of killing her 2 year old daughter, Casey Anthony is going to be a very very wealthy woman — and in quick time. I’ve said as much to friends as soon as the jury verdict came out. And here is the first sign:
“The Jerry Springer Show” has backtracked on its $1 million offer to Casey Anthony to appear on the talk show, Radar Online reported Friday.
The deal was presented to Casey’s attorney Jose Baez by Al Taylor, a freelance producer for the show, who claimed he had the green light from the program’s executives, according to the gossip website.
“I spoke to someone very high up and they knew I made the offer for them,” Taylor told the site.
“The ‘Springer’ show got immediate backlash though and decided they didn’t want any part of it anymore. But there is another show interested and they are about to make an offer in writing to Baez,” he added.
The pricey payout would have come with strings attached though — Springer’s team wanted Anthony to appear with her parents, Cindy and George, and her brother Lee.
Anthony, 25, was acquitted Tuesday of murdering her two-year-old daughter, Caylee, but convicted of lying to police.Her defense included the claim she was sexually abused as a child by her father — a suggestion her parents subsequently described as “baseless.
I think she’ll be rich because this will be in her future:
The fact of the matter is that notoriety or controversy means more exposure and big bucks in American culture. She is now the “get” for the networks and a big media topic that people “want to know more about” in the view of producers, editors and publishers. Much of American journalism still does not pay to get interviews – -but she won’t give it away.
How much longer before she has a book or script agent? She probably has one waiting in the wings.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.