said on Tuesday that while it had not yet received the court papers, from what it had been told the allegations were "totally baseless and completely without merit."
But he broke this again and again," she said.Ī spokesman for Random House Inc. "He made the promise that my name and my family's name would not be mentioned anywhere. Golden had agreed not to use any personal information supplied by Iwasaki in the more than 100 hours interviews.īut Golden broke his promise, the suit alleges, and also disparages her reputation in interviews to promote the book, which remained on the best-seller list for 58 weeks. Iwasaki was one of the most famous Geishas in Kyoto upon her retirement in 1980.Īccording to the lawsuit, Iwasaki met Golden in 1992 and agreed to be interviewed on the condition of complete anonymity for her and her family, and total confidentiality regarding her personal stories and her family's experiences. The suit alleges Golden named Iwasaki by her first name in the book's acknowledgements, saying he was "indebted to one individual above all others. Iwasaki is seeking an unspecified percentage of the $10 million in sales generated by the book as damages for using her life story as its basis and breaking promises not to reveal her name. In the end, all those promises were broken." "But the condition was that he would not use my name or my family's name in the book - it was based on this that I agreed to talk with him. "I told him many things about the geisha world," Iwasaki said from her home in the ancient capital of Kyoto in central Japan. The book depicts the female entertainers, renowned for centuries for dancing and singing, as little more than the playthings of men motivated merely by money, said Iwasaki. Knopf, of defamation, breach of contract and copyright violation. Mineko Iwasaki filed a lawsuit in a Manhattan court this week accusing author Arthur Golden and his publisher, Alfred A. TOKYO, Japan - A geisha who is suing the author of the best-seller "Memoirs of a Geisha" says she feels betrayed by the writer for breaking a promise not to reveal her identity.
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