Chapter 133 Section 15

Ever since Sonna made her first money from this notorious case, the once empty and impoverished Valao family has been in a state of insatiability.The shrewd Songna soon discovered that everything related to Mary Kay could be exchanged for money with the media.Not only did she keep the photos of her son and granddaughter behind bars, but she also repeatedly encouraged Willie to take Mary Kay's little personal property for herself. Not so long ago, on the last weekend of April, 11-month-old Audilo Vallao was baptized.Michelle Renault had come all the way from Southern California to attend the baptism because Mary Kathy had asked her to be the child's godmother, who was one of Willie's older brothers.Walking into the church, Mei Xian suspected that she had found the wrong place. "I felt like I was at a mafia party," Mei Xian told her friends afterwards.Several thug-like men in black were checking every row of chairs in the church and every bush in the courtyard one by one, because Songna didn't want any "hidden" reporters to secretly take photos.Meixian brought her own camera, and before leaving Los Angeles, she promised to bring back some photos of her granddaughter to Mary Kay's elderly parents.However, at the end of the ceremony, Sonna Vallao forced all the guests to hand over the film, but she promised to send them some pictures in the future.Meixian later found out that it turned out that a newspaper paid a deposit of 50,000 US dollars in advance to buy the exclusive right to report on Audilu's baptism.

Pregnant Mary Kay has not been idle in prison.David Gorke's assistant, Barb Hoff, who later became Vallaore's lawyer, negotiated a $250,000 deal with a French publisher, Fixort, for the British author Robert Graham. Writing an autobiography in French, dictated by Mary Kay.The title of the book has been drawn up - "The Only Sin, Love". Rather than making money, Mary Kay actually wanted to use this opportunity to convey her message to the outside world.Relevant regulations strictly prohibit detainees from conducting any commercial activities for profit, that is to say, it is impossible for the money paid by the publisher to enter Mary Kay's pocket.But as Mary Kay told some friends, she "has set up an education fund for each of her children," the cost of going to college.

Mary Kay and Robert Graham, dressed in prison uniforms, sit across from each other in the drawing room of the Women's State Penitentiary.Due to the strict rules and regulations in the prison, it was not easy to interview Mary Kay. The application had to be submitted several days in advance, and cumbersome forms had to be filled out to detail the purpose, content, and method of the interview, and one had to adjust oneself according to the time specified by the prison. other arrangements. But Mary Kay didn't understand this, and she talked along her own lines.She wanted to tell people that what happened between her and Willi Varao, like the theme of the aria from a famous Rossini opera, was "for art, for love".She wants to tell people about her mental journey and emotional changes in the whole process, which is a spiritual realm that transcends material enjoyment and physical desire.Of course, it cannot be generally said that there is no sexual desire in it, but it is just a natural expression of emotion when love reaches a climax, not purely out of sexual desire, as many newspaper, magazine articles and TV reports blindly exaggerate. requirements.

Robert Graham did not like to think so.In other words, it doesn't matter what he thinks or what Mary Kay thinks, what matters is what readers want to read in this book.Robert then interrupted Mary Kay. "Come to think of it, a jailer was watching," Mary Kay later told a friend on the phone, "and he was asking me some very 'personal', private questions. I saw his words come out of my mouth. , the jailer was suddenly full of interest, his eyes glowed, and he stared at me." After a few times, Mary Kay sensed that she and Robert were at odds, and the interview became less smooth.Robert asked: "You don't seem to trust me very much?"

Mary Kay answered "yes" in her heart, but she didn't dare to say it, because she knew that Robert Graham was appointed as the writer by the French publisher, and she also knew that the interview had to go on. However, Robert Graham was never seen again. As Mary Kay's due date approached day by day, she began to worry. She was worried that the book publishing plan would not be completed on time, or even run aground.Mary Kay waited and waited, and finally, one day in early October, Bob Hough came. Mary Kay later said that when she asked about the book, Barber put on a nonchalant look and said he was "considering" a trip to France "to figure out a few things about publishing it."

What Bob Hough didn't tell Mary Kay was that The Only Sin, Love, was out, and that both he and Willie Varrao had already gotten proof copies.However, the dictator added Willie in addition to Mary Kay.Due to the time-consuming and labor-intensive dealings with the relevant parties in the prison, due to Mary Kay's "not very cooperative" with the author Robert Graham in the interview, and because the publisher Fixort believes that the book is quite "time-sensitive". , must be launched before the public's enthusiasm for this case cools down.So they were impatient and had no time to listen to Mary Kay's "dictation" of her story. They just talked to Willie Vallao a few times in a hurry, and then filled in some lawyers' impressions and opinions, the predetermined number of words Even if it is enough.The subtlety of this koan is that the interviewee is a prisoner who has never directly signed a contract with the publisher and has no effective communication channels. Don't worry about being dissented or blocked by the "dictator".

What makes Mary Kay even more uncomfortable is that Bob Hoff “didn’t tell me they were leaving for France the next day. Kesot clarified some business entanglements without mentioning that they had been invited to the book's launch. He, with his teenage daughter, and David Goerke and Willie .I didn’t know the book had been printed. I thought it wasn’t finished.” At this time, David Golker was no longer Mary Kay’s lawyer, and she hired another female lawyer from Boston.