**FILE**Author Terry McMillan is interviewed at her Danville, Calif., home on Jan. 8, 2001. McMillan is suing her former husband for $40 million, alleging that he tried to smear her reputation during their highly publicized 2005 divorce. McMillan, 55, filed the complaint Wednesday, March 21, 2007, in Contra Costa County Superior Court in California against Jonathan Plummer, 32, who inspired her best-selling 1996 novel, "How Stella Got Her Groove Back." (AP Photo/Noah Berger)