Milo Yiannopoulos, once a rising star in conservative circles, has dropped a lawsuit against his former publisher Simon & Schuster and is finding a home for himself on Infowars, where, in addition to taking calls from Alex Jones' audience, he's helping Infowars sell 30-day liver cleaners.
Yiannopoulos' appearance came a day after he dropped a suit against his former publisher, which he claimed violated a contract by not publishing his memoir, "Dangerous."
Both Yiannopoulos and Simon & Schuster asked that the case be dismissed "without costs or fees to either party," court documents filed on Tuesday showed, according to the Guardian.
"We are pleased that Mr. Yiannopoulos’ lawsuit has been withdrawn," Simon & Schuster said in a statement on Tuesday. "We stand by our decision to terminate the publication of Mr. Yiannopoulos’ book."
The firebrand and former editor at Breitbart News filed the lawsuit last July, alleging the publishing company engaged in "willful and opportunistic" breach of contract that was all "publicity driven and entirely without merit." Simon & Schuster canceled Yiannopoulos' memoir "Dangerous," after a controversial video surfaced in which he seemed to suggest consensual sex with minors was defensible, as Salon has previously reported. Those comments also cost him his job at Breitbart.
The lawsuit opened the professional provocateur up to ridicule on social media when notes from the book's editor, Mitchell Ivers, surfaced in court documents. Yiannopoulos was told by the editor to delete several paragraphs and "stick to the facts." Other notes included "this is not true," "this is not true, either" and "let's not call South Africa 'white,'" according to court documents.
On his Facebook page, Yiannopoulos described the decision as "tough" but "the right one," and didn't hold back on his feelings for his former publisher.
"After finally being able to personally review the documents that Simon & Schuster disclosed, it was clear to me that they wrongfully terminated my contract in bad faith," he wrote. "Based on the documents, I think they signed my book knowing they'd never publish it and then tried to make me walk away with excessive editing (you've all seen the manuscript!) and demands."
In the meantime, Yiannopoulos has moved on to bigger and better things, like selling strange supplements on Infowars for Alex Jones.
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