I wonder if Lil' Kim knows that after Simon & Schuster gave her a $40,000 advance to write an novel in 2003, they turned around in 2005 and gave Foxy Brown, of all people, $75,000 for a memoir called Broken Silence, which I'm going to take a wild guess was meant to be about her sudden hearing loss.

But I guess it doesn't really matter that one was paid more than the other — neither woman actually wrote, or hired ghost writers to write, their books. The publishing house is now suing them. Contractual obligations often fall by the wayside when one is sent to jail. [ND]