Judith Regan

Judith Regan ran ReganBooks, an imprint of HarperCollins. The parent company for ReganBooks and HarperCollins was News Corp, whose chairman, Rupert Murdoch, had been one of Ms. Regan’s biggest supporters. Amid a sea of more genteel publishers, she published controversial (and often best-selling) memoirs by authors including the shock jock Howard Stern, the porn star Jenna Jameson, and the steroid-taking baseball player Jose Canseco. She was fired in the controversy brought on by her decision to publish “If I Did It” by OJ Simpson in 2005. The book was ghost written by Pablo Fenjves and eventually became the property of the Goldman family.