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UPDATE: Rolling Stone Founder Jann Wenner Book Drops Below 3,500 on Amazon, All Promotional Events Cancelled in Light of Controversy Over Comments

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Jann Wenner has cancelled all promotional events for his new book, “The Masters.”

A notice went out from the 92nd St. Y this evening cancelled Wenner’s planned Q&A with Cameron Crowe set for October 18th. Crowe made his career at Rolling Stone in the 1970s — see the movie “Almost Famous.”

It’s a stunning turn of events for Wenner, whose entire legacy has been destroyed in one week by his comments in the New York Times last week. He said that female and Black performers were too inarticulate to be interviewed and he wasn’t interested in them anyway.

In pre sales on amazon, “The Masters” has dropped to number 3,595.

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