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Tuesday, October 3, 2000
Spice biographer challenged by prosecuters
Biographer Andrew Morton's latest titbit of juicy gossip is being challenged by a U.K. crown prosecutor who says Morton should go to the police.
In Morton's biography on Victoria (Posh Spice) and David Beckham, Morton makes the accusation that the celebrity couple fabricated stories about an attempt to grab their son in an effort to get David Beckham off a speeding charge, ananova.com reports.
Beckham had his driving privileges refused for eight months in December of last year after being caught speeding. He later appealed the decision successfully by claiming that he was trying to get away from a photographer and legitimately feared for his safety.
Later that December, a fan attempted to grab their son Brooklyn from the couple while they were Christmas shopping at Harrods.
In Morton's biography, which is currently being serialised in the U.K. magazine Hello, the author takes a cynical approach to the Harrod's incident.
He writes that the woman who witnessed the grab "proved untraceable" and that a photographer told Morton: "David Beckham had a court case at the time. He used the incident, spin-doctoring to get him off. There was no manic fan."
However, a spokeswoman for the Crown Prosecution Service is challenging Morton to come forward with evidence that Beckham fabricated his crazed fan excuse.
"These are Mr Morton's opinions and if he has got any evidence that there has been any wrong-doing he ought to go to the police so they can investigate," she said. "We can only prosecute when matters are referred to us by the police."
Morton's book has been a sore subject for the famous couple. The writer, who has also written biographies on the late Princess Diana and Monica Lewinsky, learned intimate details of their private life through correspondence with the couple's former bodyguard Mark Niblett.
In August, Posh and Beckham went to court in an attempt to have several thousand words of the book, "Posh and Becks," removed but eventually reached a settlement which saw only 200 words omitted from the text.
-- AllPop
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