Dimond plans book on Jackson

Court TV reporter Diane Dimond, who has made Michael Jackson her personal beat, plans a fall book on the pop star’s last 12 years of legal woes, Simon and Schuster imprint Atria Books announced Tuesday.

The untitled project is the first publicized post-verdict book to grow out of Jackson’s child molestation trial, which ended last week with the singer’s acquittal. Atria did not say how much it is paying for the book.

Dimond broke the story on the TV tabloid show “Hard Copy” in 1993 that Jackson had paid up to $25 million to the family of a young boy who filed a civil suit accusing the pop star of child molestation.