However, New York publishers St Martin Press continue to trumpet the book as a "comprehensive and irresistibly readable portrait of the man Forbes magazine has called 'the most powerful celebrity in the world'."Ĭoincidentally Paul Barresi, the former porn star turned private investigator hired by Morton to delve into rumours that Cruise is gay, has given an interview to In Touch magazine. Having worked for more than two years investigating Cruise's life - during which he has travelled widely and employed researchers as well as a controversial private detective - Morton, 54, had expected the book to follow in the tradition of his worldwide success telling the stories of Diana and former president Bill Clinton's amorous intern, Monica Lewinsky. Says one source: "Morton hasn't unearthed anything sensational about Cruise that would make the book a blockbuster." The official reason is fear of English libel laws, but publishing insiders suggest that despite assiduous research - particularly into allegations about three-times married Cruise's sexuality - Morton has failed to discover anything salacious about the 45-year-old actor. in January - will not be published in the UK by Pan Macmillan for the foreseeable future. Morton, I can disclose, has been informed that his book - which is due to appear in the U.S. The project is a personal setback for the lofty author, whose best- selling tomes have made him one of the world's foremost exponents of celebrity exposes. Publishers have decided that his long-awaited unauthorised biography of the Hollywood star will not now be printed in Britain. She died on 19 April 2015, and her funeral was held at St Mary's Church, Chipping Norton.The Royal Family will greet the news with a quiet smirk of satisfaction.īiographer Andrew Morton, whose disclosures about Princess Diana's miserable marriage made him many millions, is not having the same success with his latest book about Tom Cruise. The Marchioness retired to Glebe Farm House, Cornwell, near Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire. She was a keen member of the Mid Surrey Drag Hunt and later a campaigner for animal rights, particularly camels (through the Wild Camel Protection Foundation) and bears. She took an outspoken position on social issues, writing to the Spectator in support of English football hooligans, and considered a political career as a Conservative. She wrote an historical novel Anne of the Sealed Knot about her civil war ancestor Anne Duke. Margot was one of the first women to hold a pilot's license, and also competed in the 1952 Round Britain car rally. The family lived at Staplefield Grange, Staplefield Green, near Haywards Heath, Sussex. They had four children: Simon Isaacs, 4th Marquess of Reading, Lady Jacqueline Rufus Isaacs, Lord Antony Rufus Isaacs, a film producer, Lord Alexander Rufus Isaacs, a lawyer. In 1940, Margot married Michael, Viscount Erleigh, later the 3rd Marquess of Reading. Margot attended Benenden school and became a society beauty, and the face of Pond's face cream.
Margot was one of three daughters of Percival Augustus Duke and Violet Mappin, and was the half-sister of Sir Charles Mappin, Violet's son by her first marriage into the Mappin & Webb family.