Stieg Larsson: lover reveals why she won't hand over final manuscript

Eva Gabrielsson, the lover of the late The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo author Stieg Larsson, has refused to hand over his final unpublished manuscript.
By Laura Roberts in The Telegraph -  23 Aug 2010

She has claimed he would not have approved of the way the trilogy has been treated.

Gabrielsson, who was Larsson's lover for 32 years, possesses a laptop containing a finished manuscript with the fourth instalment in the best-selling Millennium saga.

It was completed shortly before Larsson, an investigative journalist, died of a heart attack aged 50, six years ago. Gabrielsson has refused to hand it over to Larsson's estate which is run by his father Erland and younger brother Joakim.

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, the first in the Millennium series, has sold 32 million copies alone and the series is one of the biggest publishing phenomena since Harry Potter.

Gabrielsson, 56, has not benefited financially from her lover's success because they never married. Instead the revenue from his books and sale of film rights has gone to his father and brother.

The fourth Millennium book manuscript is now the subject of a legal wrangle between Gabrielsson and Larsson's family.

She told the Daily Mirror that Larsson would not have accepted the change made to his first novel's title. The series was originally called Men Who Hate Women, she claimed, and he would have objected to publisher's decision to call his book The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.
More at The Telegraph.

And from The Daily Mirror:
My bitter battle for the Dragon Tattoo millions