Judith Regan (born August 17, 1953) is an American editor, producer, book publisher, and television and radio talk show host.
Regan grew up in a large extended Sicilian and Irish family on a farm outside Fitchburg, Massachusetts.
[4] In 2001, she had an affair with Bernard Kerik, the New York City police commissioner and aide to Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
[5] In the mid 1980s, she signed a deal with Simon & Schuster to write two books, including a history of the American family.
She later canceled the contract in order to stay home with her young son, who had suffered a head injury after being hit by a drunken driver.
Additional books involved in publishing include Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, Wicked and Son of a Witch, also by Gregory Maguire; Stupid White Men by Michael Moore; Private Parts and Miss America by Howard Stern; The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists by Neil Strauss; Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting by Robert McKee; Shabby Chic by Rachel Ashwell; She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb; Juiced by Jose Canseco; Domicilium Decoratus by Kelly Wearstler; Shampoo Planet and Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland; Ruby Ridge, Citizen Vince, and Land of the Blind by Jess Walter; and American Soldier by Tommy Franks.
[7] After harsh criticism, News Corporation cancelled both the book and the interview with Simpson that was to air on the Fox Network, eventually pulping some 400,000 copies.
[10] After its publication was cancelled, rights to the book were awarded by court order to murder victim Ron Goldman's family to satisfy a $38 million wrongful death judgment against Simpson, after an earlier judgement by U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Jay Cristol ruled that Lorraine Brooke Associates was a shell company formed to conceal Simpson's book earnings from them.
[citation needed] In 2019, she was extensively interviewed for the documentary film Scandalous: The True Story of the National Enquirer, where she once worked.