In his prime, Warren Beatty may have been known as one of Hollywood’s most famous Casanovas. But did he really sleep with more than 12,000 women, as an upcoming biography claims?

Not so, said Beatty’s attorney, Bertram Fields, who told CNN that figure is “baloney.”

Though some news reports called the biography, titled “Star: How Warren Beatty Seduced America,” an “authorized biography,” that was never true, according to author Peter Biskind’s publicist at Simon & Schuster, Brian Ulicky.