However, soon before the book's release, the New York Post printed a somewhat graphic description of the Domingo rumor, which the paper indicated Lewis "sort of semi-denies.

[11] The Washington Post quoted Lewis' publisher as saying that an additional three page "fantasy scene" of what a sexual encounter with the tenor might be like was removed from the final version of the book.

"[14] In addition to her well-publicized focus on Domingo, whom she compared to the Spanish fictional character Don Juan,[15] Lewis also detailed various paparazzi reports of the love lives of his Three Tenors colleagues, José Carreras and Luciano Pavarotti, including the affairs that eventually ended their long-term first marriages.

[16][17] A reporter for Salon described the book as "a next-to-the-shampoo-aisle tome filled with gushing, sympathetic accounts of the apparently endless extramarital affairs enjoyed by the golden-throated divos."

He added that Lewis and Lewinsky's claims possibly illustrated "one of the more peculiar examples of the adage 'like mother, like daughter' in recent memory.