Being an established writer and a couple bucks will buy you a coffee.

She asked, he said no, that would normally be the end of such an interaction. But he decided to publicize the fact that his writing was worth $0 and original writing would be worth $100.

Quite a drop from the $350k he got paid by ABC for his pol pot interview in '87. He then sued them in 2002 for ~$20million, no idea how that case went, but I imagine not that well or else he'd probably be set.

I'm that poor dear's boyfriend so I've obsessed over this odd case for a few days now. :D