On February 18, The New York Post published news about a book that's just been released that was written by one of Fred Seaman's pals who had access to stolen property from the Dakota.

Bob Rosen (pictured from a newspaper article several years ago) was one of the people named in the David Sheff "Playboy" article, "The Betrayal of John Lennon" in March, 1984 as being part of a plot to take over John's estate, discredit Yoko and generally try to make a name for themselves after John's murder.

Rosen had access to John's stolen diaries and has created his book "Nowhere Man: The Final Days of John Lennon" "from memory" and from what he calls "investigative journalism and imagination." The book is reportedly loosely based on what Rosen read in John's diaries 18 years ago before they were returned to Yoko. In the 1984 Playboy article, it was reported that the diaries had been tampered with while they were out of Yoko's possession.

I'll say this for Rosen: he's admitting upfront that his book is a sham. Imagination, indeed.

Yoko's longtime friend and spokesperson, Elliot Mintz, said, "If Rosen says that the book is a work of imagination, the one thing we can construe is that it's not real. We are not reading the written word of John Lennon, which is the important thing to keep in mind. Considering the writer as the source, the title seems appropriate."

IK! seconds that motion.