Judith Regan has released a statement explaining she's not exploiting the OJ tragedy for the money (November is sweeps month, right). She's just trying to deal with her own history as a victim of domestic abuse.

It's pretty obvious really. Just like her Jose Canseco book helped her deal with her steroid days, her Rush Limbaugh book helped her cope with overcoming an overweight, drug-addicted hypocrite phase (I assume), and her Amber Frey book helped her deal with her crush on Scott Peterson. No...She's not an incredibly vile publishing whore. She's just got a few issues.

Just for fun, take a look at last year's NY Press list of the 50 most loathsome New Yorkers. She's parked at #48, but I bet she rockets up the chart this year. (Happy Sunday!)