The suit alleges Golden named Iwasaki by her first name in the book's acknowledgements, saying he was "indebted to one individual above all others. Iwasaki is seeking an unspecified percentage of the $10 million in sales generated by the book as damages for using her life story as its basis and breaking promises not to reveal her name. In the end, all those promises were broken." "But the condition was that he would not use my name or my family's name in the book - it was based on this that I agreed to talk with him. "I told him many things about the geisha world," Iwasaki said from her home in the ancient capital of Kyoto in central Japan. The book depicts the female entertainers, renowned for centuries for dancing and singing, as little more than the playthings of men motivated merely by money, said Iwasaki. Knopf, of defamation, breach of contract and copyright violation. Mineko Iwasaki filed a lawsuit in a Manhattan court this week accusing author Arthur Golden and his publisher, Alfred A. TOKYO, Japan - A geisha who is suing the author of the best-seller "Memoirs of a Geisha" says she feels betrayed by the writer for breaking a promise not to reveal her identity.
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