Agent Jarred Weisfeld visited Macmillan Publishers earlier this year, shopping former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich's memoir--despite the fact that he would soon file an unrelated $10 million defamation suit against publisher.

The NY Observer went behind the scenes on the Blagojevich book deal, which did not end up at Macmillan. The article interviews Weisfeld--founder of Objective Entertainment--about his lawsuit against the publisher for "malicious, false, defamatory and anti-Semitic statements" made in a forthcoming biography of Ol' Dirty Bastard. An unidentified "senior-level employee" at the publisher said the book was not rejected because of the lawsuit.

Here's more from the article: "[Weisfeld said] 'I was like, 'This is the most selfless thing an agent can do, come to a building where they say all this nasty anti-Semitic stuff about you in a book.'' Mr. Weisfeld said he took the meeting at Macmillan because he'd been given reason to believe that St. Martin's would pay 'big money' for the book."