I respond:
It has come to my attention that Eleanor Gribbin posted on her Facebook group that my Valentino biography, Affairs Valentino is the "workings of a mad woman". In doing this, she participates in the defamatory lie that I am insane... waged against me by those trying to prevent people from reading my work.
I dispute this 100% and say this statement is not made as an opinion as in "I think".. or "Perhaps"... but she makes this statement as fact which constitutes defamation.
Those who have actually read my book, Affairs Valentino have had nothing but praise for the long and meticulous labor which was involved in its creation.
I think all of our books are testament to my sanity which I do not have to defend. If anything Gribbin's calling me insane... says more about her than me. It is not a nice thing to do. And in these times, I find it highly offensive that she would use the subject of mental illness as a means to demean and bully someone.
She might not like Affairs Valentino, she has that right of course... but as someone who claims an interest in Valentino she can certainly recognize the sources and the ground-breaking documentation, as well as the thorough testimonies of the Ullman and Mennillo families... as being definitive and solid.
Her calling me "mad" to deter a potential reader is now part of the collective body of evidence which stands as proof of a campaign to lie about me and our work and impede our legal right to do business in a fair way. But as the saying goes... haters gonna hate... but when the hater is openly and quite publicly deterring our right to do business it becomes a different matter entirely.
