Natalie Portman has many close friends in her adopted hometown of Paris — but the acclaimed writer Rachel Cusk is not one of them, sources insist to Page Six. Nonetheless, the two women are in the middle of a literary scandal that has insiders buzzing from Hollywood to France. Cusk’s novel, “Life of M,” out August 25, details a writer’s relationship with a former child star living in Paris as she attempts to write her autobiography. The former child star sure seems like Portman’s doppelgänger — from her failed marriage to her intense Method preparation for the movie “Black Swan” — and it’s not the most flattering portrait. Pages Six...
