‘It’s a man’s Ponzi scheme’: Netflix won’t pay royalties to Sex and the City author

This is a success that he could not predict in advance. In 1996, when he published an anthology of his columns titled sex and the cityCandace Bushnell didn’t realize that her novel about four women living in Manhattan and their love stories would become a true phenomenon.

But despite the global phenomenon, the business does not bring much money to the author. Candice Bushnell has revealed that she will not receive royalties from Netflix’s recent deal to stream all six seasons of Sex and the City on its platform.

$100,000 for a millionaire franchise

HBO originally paid Candice Bushnell $100,000 for the rights to adapt her novel, which spawned a series that ran from 1998 to 2004 and a franchise now worth hundreds of millions of dollars. He expressed his opinion about the new agreement in a conversation with the newspaper London Times :

All these men running the business are just moving these cards to make money, because every time they move the cards, someone gets paid. A man doing business is a Ponzi scheme.

and added: “The percentage of women in the 1% who have made their own money is about 3.5%, which is shocking“.

In addition to the Netflix streaming deal, the franchise continues with its third season of sequels and just like that… which follows the lives of Carrie, Charlotte and Miranda (Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon). Kim Cattrall, who played the very delicious role of Samantha in the original series, is not in the sequel due to Sarah Jessica Parker and her feud.

All of that doesn’t stop Candice Bushnell from sharing her experiences in a show full of anecdotes and memories called True tales of success and Sex and the City (True Stories of Success and Sex and the City).