Scott Weiland‘s life of rock n roll and addictions has been well-documented but the singer has revealed a shocking sexual assault from his childhood in his memoir Not Dead and Not For Sale.

The Stone Temple Pilots lead singer recounts a terrifying incident from his past in excerpts at Spin magazine.

At 12 year-old and living in Ohio a “big muscular guy, a high school senior… [who] rode the bus with me every day to school… invited me to his house. The dude raped me. It was quick, not pleasant. I was too scared to tell anyone. ‘Tell anyone,’ he warned, ‘and you’ll never have another friend in this school. I’ll ruin your f****n’ reputation.’ Adds Weiland, “This is a memory I suppressed until only a few years ago when, in rehab, it came flooding back. Therapy will do that to you.”

Weiland also recounts how he first met Courtney Love at the Chateau Marmont after a fight with his then wife.

“That’s where I ran into another one of my dealer’s best customers, Courtney Love,” he writes. “She was with Amanda de Cadenet, the photographer/socialite. As fate would have it, their room was next to mine. That night Courtney and I got high as she and Amanda dressed for dinner at the home of Jack Nicholson. For a while, Ms. Love inserted herself into my ever-more-erratic story. We were never lovers but were rather close at the start.”

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It seems all you need to do to get a book deal these days is become a C- or even D-List celebrity and the publishing houses beat a path to your door.  And if you’re Kelly Bensimon of the Real Housewives of New York, you get multiple book deals.  She’s just inked a contract to write her fourth book.

Kelly’s I Want To Make You Hot, will be published by St. Martin’s Press sometime in 2012. Why this book?  She says she feels

“good about myself, my fluctuating weight and my life.  Hot isn’t about a waist size or a number on a scale.  We can control how we look and feel, so let’s get started together…Spend seven days with me and my expert friends and we’ll have fun with exercise, eat better, dress amazing, have more fun and smile through a life that’s too short.”

Seven days to a better life, huh?  Talk about high expectations!  We’ll see next year when the book comes out whether Kelly can actually deliver.

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2011 has been good to Shania Twain so far.  She got married, was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall Of Fame, and now has published a memoir, From This Moment On.

And really, she had a good year coming to her.  Some of the things Shania reveals in her book are just awful, but we’ve heard much of it before, in countless other celebrity memoirs.  Growing up in poverty, a physically and sexually abusive step-father, and a really ugly divorce.   It’s a country song come to life.   Hear an excerpt from the audio book here.

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Shania made a stop on her book tour at the Barnes & Noble on 5th Avenue in New York City.  See more pictures from the event after the jump.

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Sometimes you should just let a sleeping Mama Grizzly lie.

Levi Johnston is getting ready to stir up a whole hornets nest with his Sarah Palin & Family tell-all called Deer In The Headlights: My Life in Sarah Palin’s Crosshairs and is due out in the fall.

Johnston, the former boyfriend of Bristol Palin, said he’s doing this so people can learn his side.

“I want to tell the truth about my relationship with the Palins . . . my sense of Sarah, and my perplexing fall from grace — how I feel and what I’ve learned.  I’m doing this for me, for my boy Tripp and for the country,” the soon-to-be 21 year-old said in a statement.

The book is being billed as a coming-of-age story.

“This is a sweet and funny book with a touch of irony; a fascinating tale of a misunderstood boy figuring out how to be a man and a father after being thrust into the spotlight and subsequent media circus at a very young and vulnerable age,” Stacy Creamer, Touchstone vice president and publisher, said in a statement. “Levi has seen the Palin family up close and personal and is ready to tell his story.”

This isn’t the only Palin centered tome headed to bookstores and Kindles. Bristol reportedly has one in the works, and Sarah’s former gubernatorial chief-of-staff Frank Bailey has Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin coming out this fall as well.

Another offering about Sarah is due in autumn from best selling author Joe McGinniss, adding more Palin fuel to the fire.

It’s shaping up to be a Very Palin Season.

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As far memoirs go, Kara DioGuardia’s upcoming A Helluva High Note, has a lot of low notes in the songwriter’s life.

DioGuardia reveals her childhoos sexual trauma, beginning at the age of 11, at the hands of family friend’s son, who assaulted her in a backyard shed.

“On one particular day, he took me into the back shed of his house and put his hands all over my breasts and vagina,” she writes. “I remember freezing and not knowing what to do.”

The former American Idol judge also recounts her date rape, in 2000, as her career was taking off, by a “fairly known producer” who took Kara out to dinner one night.

“[W]ithin a few hours, he was on top of me, pumping, sweating and speaking to me in Spanish, not a word of which I could understand.”  Unable to fight him off because he was too strong, DioGuardia asked him to stop repeatedly to no avail.

The 40 year-old also sheds light on her A.I. departure saying she wasn’t fired, she left because she wanted to have a baby and asked to be let out of her contract.

“I wanted a child, and there was no way I could get pregnant under the stress of 18-hour work days and live TV,” she writes. “I had undergone three unsuccessful rounds of IVF during Season 9.”

“Leaving was painful, and there will always be a part of me that wanted to stay,” DioGuardia said. “But my desire to be in control of my destiny was larger than my need to be a household name.”

Her memoir will be on sale April 26th. She is also costarring with Jewel in Bravo TV’s upcoming reality program, Platinum Hit, which debuts on May 30th.

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Gwyneth Paltrow made an appearance to sign copies of her book at the Williams-Sonoma in the Mall At Short Hills in Short Hills, New Jersey. (Book? Yeah, she wrote a cookbook: My Father’s Daughter: Delicious, Easy Recipes Celebrating Family & Togetherness. Whew! It took me so long to read that title that I got hungry. Good thing it’s a cook book!) And while a mall in an affluent suburb was certainly the last place I would expect to find our fair Gwyneth, I’m just not so sure anymore. That Good Housekeeping cover from earlier this year still disturbs me. And in Short Hills, in her comfy sweater, jeans and no-nonsense hair, she looks ready to take on the car pool lane with aplomb – albeit in a luxury car (a hybrid, of course). This is not the way celebrities dress to greet their public! This is the way I dress to run to the dry cleaners. I think this whole suburban soccer mom thing has gone just a bit too far…

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Tina Fey is hitting the book signing trail for her memoir, Bossypants and her first stop: Barnes & Noble in New York.

The 30 Rock actress, who just announced her second pregnancy, is returning to her old SNL studio to host Saturday Night Live on May 7th.

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Ashley Judd joins the ranks of self-reflective celebrities this coming week with the release of her memoir, All That Is Bitter & Sweet.   From the sounds of it, though, her life has been mostly bitter.  She chronicles multiple incidents of sexual abuse and molestation, attempted rape, suicidal ideation, repressed memories of incest, and witnessing her mother Naomi Judd fighting with men.  Small wonder she traces her history of depression back to when she was just seven years old, and says she still struggles with it.

Ashley also chronicles her international humanitarian work, referring to it as her “calling,” and – here’s the sweet part – her marriage to car racer Dario Franchitti.

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The book was written with the help of Maryanne Vollers, who worked with Hillary Rodham Clinton on her memoir, Living History.   It will hit stores on April 5th.

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Writing a memoir is, just by its nature, a pretty narcissistic endeavor.  I mean, you’re writing about yourself and your life; what could possibly be more self-centered?  I’ll tell you what.  The book jacket for Jesse James‘ memoir, American Outlaw, is exactly that.  Jesse really seems to be taking the whole famous-outlaw-namesake thing way too far.  On the front cover you have Jesse in shadow and sepia, framed by text in an Old West font.  On the rear cover, you have Jesse dressed as the historical Jesse James, holding his own .44 Magnum in a casually threatening manner.

What’s up with this design?  Jesse says he didn’t want to go with the ubiquitous

“variation of a bad prom photo, serious Thinker pose like most book jackets show.  I just wanted something different. I wasn’t going to mail it in.”

Bad prom phot–what?  What is he talking about?  Well, you know, when you’ve got a book full of gripping content, you want that reflected in the book’s exterior, right?

“I’ve lived a pretty crazy life.  My life has been defined by many things and not just the events of the last year.  I just wanted [the memoir] to be a good story, a page-turner and hopefully people will see it as that.

People claim to know everything about me, when they actually know nothing.  But once you read this, you will know everything – the whole story, right here.”

There is honestly so little that I really want to know about Jesse James.  Speaking of those events of the last year, I think we all know just a little more than we want to, actually.   I’m kind of left wondering who’s going to read this thing.

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Perhaps taking inspiration from his fiancée, Kat Von D, Jesse James has decided to write a memoir.  He’s signed a deal with Simon & Schuster’s Gallery Books to publish his book, American Outlaw.

Jesse should be thankful to Sandra Bullock for divorcing him, because without that juicy development, there’s very little reason his memoir would be marketable.

Gallery Books publishes many highly talented celebrity authors such as Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi.  Jesse’s book does not have an official release date yet, but is expected later this year.

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