Why Salman Rushdie might sue over a book

Are the claims by a security officer that guarded Rushdie true?

What happened

The publisher of a book that Salman Rushdie claims paints him in a negative light is delaying publication for a week following Rushdie’s threat to sue. On Her Majesty’s Service by Ron Evans, one of the security guards assigned to protect Rushdie during the fatwa against him for his book The Satanic Verses, claims that Rushdie charged guards money to stay at his house and drink his wine, and that the guards once locked Rushdie in a cupboard because he was annoying them. Rushdie refutes the claims. (Guardian)

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