Posted on 03/31/2005 10:17:15 AM PST by becker
March 25, 2005 HER BODY, MY SELF : What's In It for Michael Schiavo? -added font A SHORT NOTE CONCERNING the financial benefits to Michael Schiavo that will accrue from the death of his wife.
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What I do have some sense of is how much money Michael Schiavo stands to make if, and only if, his wife dies. It is, for a man, with a fresh new wife and two children, substantial. Having worked as an editor for Houghton Mifflin and as a literary agent, I have some the price the publishing and media worlds would put on his story. It will be significantly more than 30 pieces of silver.
The book deal: "HER BODY, MY SELF" by Michael Schiavo can be auctioned to a large group of major publishers within ten days of Terri Schiavo's death. This can be arranged by an canny and shameless agent -- and they are legion -- on the basis of 12 telephone calls, a two-page outline, a ghost writer known to the New York publishing world, and a dog-and-pony show where Michael is flown to New York and trotted around to six to eight editors' offices in a day. The bidding for this book will have a floor of two million dollars. The top offer will be in the range of three to three and a half-million for hardcover and paperback rights. Depending on the agent's feel for the market, translation rights may be added to the mix. Film rights will be held back. After the agent's 15% fee, Michael's take from this will be $2,550,000, less $50,000 paid to the ghost writer.
The film and tv rights for Michael's "story" will probably bring in another 1-3 million dollars depending on a number of factors and will, in this instance, be set in motion before the publication of the book.
Speaking fees: Michael Schiavo's lawyer currently commands $15,000 per speaking engagement, so it is not hard to see that Michael could easily pull down $50,000 per engagement. While you probably won't see him show up at Catholic conventions, he's a natural Keynoter for hundreds of other groups across the country and abroad. In the first year alone he could, given a reasonable calendar, be booked for at least 50 events. His gross fees in the first year would, in that case, come to $2,500,000.
Terri Schiavo is worth six to eight million dollars to Michael Schiavo if, and only if, she's dead. If she continues living nothing happens on the book or movie front because there's no ending. When she dies, it is jackpot time for Michael.
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GOD BLESS THE DEAD T.S.
Is this supposed to say:
What Micheal Schiavo stands to make now that Terri is Dead
So, would a boycott of a publisher be effective?
There are a (blessedly) small percentage of whacky people out there who will commit violence in the name of any cause, simply in order to shore up their own foundering egos. If I were Michael Schiavo, or any other individual seen as responsible for Terri's death, I'd keep my back to the wall.
You know, if a prisoner on death row becomes mentally incompetnet, the death sentence is commuted because he wouldn't understand why he is being put to death..here Terri who is brain damaged is given less consideration.
I hope the family of Terri can get an investigation and maybe charge MS and all his cohorts with murder.
They keep saying that Terri had no stem cell or whatever. They also said she was bulemic. Does this cause no stem cell or do you have to have something hit you with force like a car wreck or someone hitting you with blunt force?
I guess I am wondering how does bulemia cause no stem cell or cortex whatever it is?
I think any book movie should be boycotted and if he gets any money I hope he doesn't enjoy spending one penny of it! he's a total scum bag.
It will cost him alot of money for round the clock protection and the endless civil suits to come. As horrible as what he did to Terri was, what he has done to the future for himself and his family may very well be a living nightmare albeit well deserved for him. I feel for the innocent children he has and what a cruel world will lay upon them in his name.
Yes, good catch... anyway to edit?
Probably not. If you can sell a book to 1-percent of the American population, you've got a runaway bestseller, and based on the conversations I'm hearing around my office this morning I'd say there's easily a profoundly morally sick 1-percent who will rush to buy this book.
I have no doubt that MS will profit from this.
I also have no doubt that the Schindler's will make a small fortune as well.
Now that its over, he will lose the very thing that gave him the pleasure of having power. I believe he will enter into a severe depression once the feeling of having power and control removed.
The bad news is Michael will be rolling in material wealth and we'll have to hear a lot of gushing sympathy for his grieving widowerhood, the terrible abuse he suffered from his in-laws, and his "heartrending" decision that he made out of "loyalty to Terri's wishes."
The good news is that we will clearly see who in our society chooses to adulate and enrich this man, that this vain posturing peacock's story and character will not stand up to the test of time....and Terri has already presented her case and obtained a de novo review by the Highest Judge of the Universe...and He will be waiting in eternity for Michael and Felos to present their side of it again, in His presence, with a particular insight into the motives in their hearts.
And this time, Terri will be able to testify on her own behalf.
The Schindlers deserve a fortune and mroe with what they have endured over all these years dealing with this pond scum. I'm surprised Bobby didn't choke that scum til he was in a vegatative state! I wouldn't have shown that much restraint.
A SHORT NOTE CONCERNING the financial benefits to Michael Schiavo that will accrue from the death of his wife.
I've seen numerous comments that the money given to Terri following various settlements has been dissipated in paying for hospice care and legal bills over the years. I have no way of knowing how true that is, but I suspect that it is, in the main, the case. I also note that the defenders of the man who now has to rank as the worst husband in America since Bill Clinton never tire of pointing out that "he turned down a million dollars " to transfer Terri's guardianship to the family. Again, I have no way of knowing how true that is, but if he did it was a shrewd move and, as we observe Michael Schiavo in his television appearances, we can see he is a shrewd man.
What I do have some sense of is how much money Michael Schiavo stands to make if, and only if, his wife dies. It is, for a man, with a fresh new wife and two children, substantial. Having worked as an editor for Houghton Mifflin and as a literary agent, I have some sense of the price the publishing and media worlds would put on his story. It will be significantly more than 30 pieces of silver.
The book deal: "HER BODY, MY SELF" by Michael Schiavo can be auctioned to a large group of major publishers within ten days of Terri Schiavo's death. This can be arranged by an canny and shameless agent -- and they are legion -- on the basis of 12 telephone calls, a two-page outline, a ghost writer known to the New York publishing world, and a dog-and-pony show where Michael is flown to New York and trotted around to six to eight editors' offices in a day. The bidding for this book will have a floor of two million dollars. The top offer will be in the range of three to three and a half-million for hardcover and paperback rights. Depending on the agent's feel for the market, translation rights may be added to the mix. Film rights will be held back. After the agent's 15% fee, Michael's take from this will be $2,550,000, less $50,000 paid to the ghost writer.
The film and tv rights for Michael's "story" will probably bring in another 1-3 million dollars depending on a number of factors and will, in this instance, be set in motion before the publication of the book.
Speaking fees: Michael Schiavo's lawyer currently commands $15,000 per speaking engagement, so it is not hard to see that Michael could easily pull down $50,000 per engagement. While you probably won't see him show up at Catholic conventions, he's a natural Keynoter for hundreds of other groups across the country and abroad. In the first year alone he could, given a reasonable calendar, be booked for at least 50 events. His gross fees in the first year would, in that case, come to $2,500,000.
Terri Schiavo is worth six to eight million dollars to Michael Schiavo if, and only if, she's dead. If she continues living nothing happens on the book or movie front because there's no ending. When she dies, it is jackpot time for Michael.
I guess he'll be able to buy that nice house his common-law wife has probably been bugging him about for years. It doesn't take a telepath to imagine the pillow talk at Michael Schiavo's house: "We've got two kids and she's still hanging on! You and that lawyer better get cracking. We've got college to think of and need at least five bedrooms! It's a great time to buy. What's the matter with you? Get me my down payment or I'm out of here. And I'm taking the kids... You said you'd get rid of her years ago and we're still in this dump I never liked..."
If you think the current wife's mind-set doesn't play a roll in the killing of Terri Schiavo, think again. Women with children might like having a husband, but they love real estate and tuition funds more. After all, half of a house is forever.
Well .. the parents could bring a civil suit against Michael for "wrongful death" and thereby prevent him from profiting from any book deal.
That's what Laci's parents have just done to Scott Peterson.
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