Was Princess Di Murdered?

My 1999 Reinvestigation Found Plenty of Mistakes and Coverup by French Authorities but No Evidence of Foul Play

Tina Brown surprised the magazine world in July 1998 when she abruptly resigned her post as editor of the New Yorker and announced she would launch a new monthly magazine, Talk, in partnership with Miramax Films. I had written some articles for Tina at the New Yorker, and her husband, Harold Evans, was the president of Random House, the publisher at that time for three of my books. My latest, Killing the Dream: James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., was published only a few months before Tina’s announcement.

Tina Brown knew how to generate buzz and she wanted as much as possible for Talk’s premier issue. What about the steady drumbeat of tabloids that claimed that Diana’s car wreck death was a diabolical murder plot? Could there be anything to the rumors, Tina wondered. Tina wanted me to do the story because I had concluded in critically acclaimed books that Lee Harvey Oswald and James Earl Ray were lone assassins. All media would pay attention if I found cr…