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Girodias consistently ran into difficulties with the authorities throughout his career.

The Paris police, often pressured by British customs, seized and destroyed many copies of his books.

The courts would fine him, and by 1963 he found he had to leave Paris, first for Copenhagen, then for America, where Customs agents destroyed the microfilm copies of numerous TC titles Girodias possessed.

He also got into serious trouble with Simon & Schuster and author Irving Wallace over a work called The Original Seven Minutes by J. J. Jadway ( see ) which purported to be the actual book featured in Irving Wallace's novel The Seven Minutes.

Copies of Girodias ' Olympia Press title had to be destroyed before reaching the bookstores.