This week, the ex-wife of thriller writer Dan Brown filed a jaw-dropping lawsuit against the author of The Da Vinci Code, accusing him of living a 'proverbial life of lies'. The Da Vinci Code alone has sold at least 100 million copies, despite prompting Catholic outcry over its claim that Jesus and Mary Magdalene married and had a child. Brown has repeatedly acknowledged his wife's importance to his career, telling the Mail on Sunday in 2017: 'I probably wouldn't have written [The Da Vinci Code] without her.' 'That 'anonymous sponsor' was Dan Brown, who was secretly using substantial sums of the Browns' marital assets without Blythe's knowledge', says the lawsuit. After they married in 1997, she was a 'full partner in what might be called 'the Dan Brown phenomenon' ' and 'no bystander'.

Source: Daily Mail July 01, 2020 21:55 UTC