Here’s An Odd One. As a trial over the movie ‘Sahara’ begins, Philip Anschutz’s lawyers say Clive Cussler inflated book sales figures.
Attorneys for Philip Anschutz allege that author Clive Cussler duped the Denver industrialist into paying $10 million for film rights to the adventure novel “Sahara” by flagrantly inflating his book sales to more than 100 million copies.
“Cussler and his agent had gotten away with these numbers for years,” said Alan Rader, Anschutz’s lawyer. “It was a lie and it doomed the movie.”
The claim is “ridiculous,” Cussler said Thursday outside a courtroom at Los Angeles County Superior Court. “They wanted the book. They solicited us.”
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