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What really happened to Rielle Hunter’s book called “What Really Happened?” Well, it was released on June 22nd. Three weeks later–or less than–it’s over. Dead. Kaput. Amazon has it ranked number 1,360. That’s one thousand three hundred sixty. So after “20/20″ and ABC demolished her, John Edwards dumped her, and people were outraged by her comments about Elizabeth Edwards, Hunter is over. No regular publisher took the book, so a small indie house brought it out. Let’s hope they didn’t print too many. Hunter used Rosemarie Terenzio as her New York publicist. Terenzio is not known as a book publicist but she was John F. Kennedy Jr.’s assistant years ago at George magazine. This week Terenzio is making the rounds on TV pushing the paperback of her own book about John John and Carolyn Bessette. It’s called — or should be– “I Waited Long Enough, Now I’m Cashing In.” The actual paperback, “Fairy Tale Interrupted” is sitting at number 901 on amazon.com tonight. No one’s interested in this stuff because they smell something is sour. That’s at least reassuring. Is Rielle Hunter over? I’d say her next stop is “Celebrity Apprentice.” Just wait.

Roger Friedman

Roger Friedman began his Showbiz411 column in April 2009 after 10 years with Fox News. Friedman previously wrote the Intelligencer column at New York Magazine, He writes for Parade magazine and has written for Details, Vogue, the New York Times, Post, and Daily News and many other publications. He is the writer and co-producer of a film about R&B Music called “Only the Strong Survive,” which was released by Miramax in 2003 and was a selection of the Cannes, Sundance, and Telluride Film festivals.