Sounds Like A New Novel

I'm sure she's already heard enough snickers and I told you so's. Let's just hope she's able to translate her latest real life drama into another best seller.

"In a tale rich in lost love, closeted secrets and acrimonious divorce, it turns out that famed local writer Terry McMillan -- whose celebrated romance and subsequent marriage to a man 23 years her junior became the subject of her fictionized best-seller 'How Stella Got Her Groove Back' -- actually got her groove back with a man who now says he's gay.

The story is spilling out in made-for-Hollywood detail in Contra Costa County Superior Court, where McMillan has filed for divorce from her Jamaican- born husband of six years, Jonathan Plummer.

McMillan, 53, said in court documents that the marriage was based on a 'fraud'' because Plummer lied about his sexual orientation -- and married her only to gain U.S. citizenship.

'It was devastating to discover that a relationship I had publicized to the world as life-affirming and built on mutual love was actually based on deceit,'' she wrote in her declaration. 'I was humiliated.'

Plummer, 30, countered in court papers of his own that McMillan has turned on him with a 'homophobic'' vengeance and is trying to force his return to an uncertain future in Jamaica. He wants to void the couple's prenuptial agreement that would keep from him most of the millions she's earned as a writer.

He also claims he was denied his full share of royalties, as spelled out in the prenup, from 'How Stella Got Her Groove Back,' the fictionalized account of a single mother's torrid relationship with a Jamaican young enough to be her son that very much parallels the lives of McMillan and Plummer."