Marco Borsato had no need to cooperate with the book that Evert Santegoeds wrote about him. “I happened to meet his lawyers in the vegetable.”
A remarkable timing: for the great apotheosis-in a month the big trial will finally start against him-there is a book about the Marco Borsato case on the shelves. The writer is Evert Santegoeds, who kept the accusations against the singer under the cap for a year and a half until other media got it.
Vegetableism
In his book, Evert lists all events in the run -up to the fall of Marco. The singer did not want to cooperate, he says in Shownieuws. “In any case, I approached them. Marco made it clear from the start that he was not going to cooperate.”
He continues: “Coincidentally, on the first day that it became known that his lawyers were the couple Knoops were against them at the vegetable department of the supermarket in my area, so we talked about it.”
Squeeze
What was that about? “All the people who kept squeezing a pear for a little longer than normal to hear what we were talking about, nothing wiser, because it didn’t make me anything wiser,” said Evert.
“They immediately made it clear that no press would be involved and that Marco would only tell his story in court. He will do that on October 28. If you want to know more about it now, then this is a book that you can make much wiser.”
Leontine knew it
Evert has also informed Leontine Ruiters of the new book. “I happened to come across it again, in the presence of Gerard Joling. Yes, I meet a lot of people. A flying bird always catches something. I thought: it’s crazy if I don’t say I am busy with a book, because otherwise I did it in peace.”
He continues: “She was actually shocked:” A book?! ” I said, “But you have no idea how big this will be?” Well, she didn’t quite like that.
“She didn’t want”
Leontine did doubt about her cooperation in the book, says Evert. “She thought for a moment whether she would work on it or not and in the end she did not use it.”
Finally: does he not release that book a little early? Couldn’t he have waited better for the lawsuit? “I can always adjust that book, even if there is a appeal. Then it can get a bit thicker.”