WikiLeaks founder Assange signs $1.5 mn autobiography deal
MOSCOW: WikiLeaks owner Julian Assange says he has signed contracts worth $1.5 million for penning his autobiography.
Assange, whose whistleblowing website has annoyed US fury by releasing tip tactful documents, pronounced a money will assistance him to urge himself opposite a passionate attack claims made by dual women in Sweden, which he denies.
"I do not wish to write this book, but we have to," he told The Sunday Times in an interview. "I have already spent 200,000 pounds for authorised costs as well as we need to urge myself as well as to keep WikiLeaks afloat."
The 39-year-old Australian pronounced he will embrace $800,000 from a US publishing house Alfred Knopf as well as $500,000 from a British understanding with Canongate. The sum sum from a deals, together with those with other markets, will reach over $1.5 million.
The WikiLeaks owner was released on bail by a British justice last week as well as vowed that he would go on his work.
Assange has been staying at a friend's Norfolk palace in eastern England given his release from jail Dec 16 on strict bail conditions that embody reporting to military every day as well as wearing an electronic tag.
World leaders as well as diplomats have downplayed a stroke of a leak of some-more than 250,000 confidential US tactful cables by a WikiLeaks site.
Assange, whose whistleblowing website has annoyed US fury by releasing tip tactful documents, pronounced a money will assistance him to urge himself opposite a passionate attack claims made by dual women in Sweden, which he denies.
"I do not wish to write this book, but we have to," he told The Sunday Times in an interview. "I have already spent 200,000 pounds for authorised costs as well as we need to urge myself as well as to keep WikiLeaks afloat."
The 39-year-old Australian pronounced he will embrace $800,000 from a US publishing house Alfred Knopf as well as $500,000 from a British understanding with Canongate. The sum sum from a deals, together with those with other markets, will reach over $1.5 million.
The WikiLeaks owner was released on bail by a British justice last week as well as vowed that he would go on his work.
Assange has been staying at a friend's Norfolk palace in eastern England given his release from jail Dec 16 on strict bail conditions that embody reporting to military every day as well as wearing an electronic tag.
World leaders as well as diplomats have downplayed a stroke of a leak of some-more than 250,000 confidential US tactful cables by a WikiLeaks site.
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