The latter penned a searing tome of drug abuse, violence and redemption, 2003's A Million Little Pieces.

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Writer James Frey suffered one of the most humiliating smack downs of all time when it turned out parts of his hit memoir, A Million Little Pieces, were fabricated.

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Attorney Michael David Myers wants to assemble a class action on behalf of every Washington resident who read A Million Little Pieces-- plus anybody who bought the book from a Washington vendor.

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Oprah Winfrey's media empire is firing on all cylinders, after she beat back a firestorm of controversy by confronting author James Frey on the air over the myriad lies in his book A Million Little Pieces, which Winfrey had previously praised.

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Within days of the revelation that author James Frey may have fudged some of the details in his 2003 "memoir" A Million Little Pieces, lawyers filed the first of at least three suits seeking millions of dollars in damages from allegedly defrauded consumers.

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