Milo Yiannopoulos Strikes $250K Book Deal



Milo Yiannopoulos, a prominent Donald Trump supporter and member of the so-called “alt-right” movement, has reportedly been offered US$250,000 for his first book.

Yiannopoulos, the technology editor at far-right website Breitbart, was banned from Twitter in July for his role in the online abuse of the Ghostbusters actor Leslie Jones. The chief executive of Breitbart, Steven Bannon, is Trump’s controversial choice for chief strategist in the White House.

Yiannopoulos told the Hollywood Reporter that negative publicity had only boosted his profile, likening it to MTV banning the video for Madonna’s Justify My Love in 1990 and coverage of Trump in the lead-up to the US election.

"They said banning me from Twitter would finish me off. Just as I predicted, the opposite has happened. "Did it hurt Madonna being banned from MTV in the 1990s? Did all that negative press hurt Donald Trump's chances of winning the election?"

The autobiographical book is his first, though Yiannopoulos, a flamoboyant and gay conservative, has a wide following for his writing, especially at Breitbart News, where he is an editor.

"I met with top execs at Simon & Schuster earlier in the year and spent half an hour trying to shock them with lewd jokes and outrageous opinions. I thought they were going to have me escorted from the building — but instead they offered me a wheelbarrow full of money,"

Yiannopoulos is also filming his "Dangerous F—t Tour" of college campuses for a feature-length documentary fiim.

"Every line of attack the forces of political correctness try on me fails pathetically. I'm more powerful, more influential and more fabulous than ever before, and this book is the moment Milo goes mainstream. Social justice warriors should be scared — very scared," he said.

The Chicago Review of Books described Yiannopoulos’ book deal as a “disgusting validation of hate” and said it would boycott books published by Simon & Schuster in 2017 in protest.


Carolyn Kellogg, the book editor of the Los Angeles Times, described Yiannopoulos as a “troll promoting racist, sexist views”.

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