The former mistress of George Best, Gina Devivo, has joined forces with the late superstar footballer's widow to claim that a new book about the period leading up to his death is largely fiction.
Devivo is so upset by what she describes as the work of someone "with a very good imagination" that she says she has contacted Alex Best to support her in a legal claim against the publishers of the book, by journalist Celia Walden, the wife of journalist and TV presenter Piers Morgan. Extracts from Walden's book, Babysitting George, have been serialised in the Daily Telegraph.
"I am most angry for George, because he is not here to defend himself," said Devivo.
Devivo says that Walden was with the couple for a much shorter time than she suggests in the book.
Walden met Best when her newspaper sent her to Malta in 2003 to "babysit" him.
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Mistress: Best book fiction
Former British soccer hero George Best with his 24 year old wife Alex. Photo / Supplied
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