His publicist Michelle Bega confirmed this news to a USA Today reporter.

JM You might also want to have a look at this particular n gram, and that's to tell Nietzsche that God is not dead, although you might agree that he might need a better publicist.

Whatever happened between the former managing director of the International Monetary Fund and his accuser, the fact that he was arrested and paraded in front of the press as a criminal suspect has been much criticized in France. One allegation, made recently by a well known French publicist, is that the arrest was typical of American puritanism.