Try as he might, Clay Aiken can't stay out of the headlines. Though it's a lawsuit against him from unauthorized biographer Jeannie Holleman – and not, say, webcam photos from an Internet affair – that's bringing him into the spotlight. Aiken, along with his mother Faye Parker, are named in a suit filed Friday claiming they conspired to dampen sales of her book Out of the Blue: 'Clay' it Forward. Holleman claims to be a lifelong friend and neighbor of a family that was friends with Parker. Now it's Camp Aiken's supposed denial of knowing Holleman and an alleged incident where an Aiken bodyguard "manhandled" Holleman at a fundraiser in Hawaii that's got the author looking for 1) At least $260,000 in damages; and, ridiculously, 2) "the court to order Aiken to issue a retraction of the critical comments or endorse her book on his official Web site, to write a positive introduction for the book, and to sell the book at his concerts for at least five years."

Author Claims Aiken, Mother Tried To Stifle Her Book [AP]