![]() Ms Iwasaki is not named in the book but her case centres not only on the help she gave Golden but also on her assertion that the main character is entirely her, not a composite. The story is set in Kyoto before and during the second world war, the last years of the old-style geisha houses, whose traditions ranged from classical dance to practices tantamount to bonded labour. He has said in public the story is based on her and that has affected her life negatively, since a lot of the stories he's portrayed were not accurate." Her lawyer, Dorothy Weber, said: "The selling of her virginity, that rite of passage did not happen. ![]() "Both stories are patently untrue and Golden has falsely represented them as fact." The case entered in the Manhattan federal court says that Golden's book "repeatedly stated that Ms Iwasaki was sold into the geisha world as a child by her parents and that her virginity was auctioned to the highest bidder when she came out as a geisha". ![]() ![]() She wants an "appropriate percentage" of the $10m (£7m) which she estimates the book has earned. Now Ms Iwasaki, 50, is suing him, claiming that he "tarnished her reputation, breached an unwritten contract not to reveal her identity and unjustly enriched himself through the novel". ![]()
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