Topic: Jt Leroy
Actor Joaquin Phoenix was supposed to appear on the Late Show With David Letterman in February. A documentary is in the works about Phoenix's hijinks, Casey Affleck, Phoenix's brother-in-law.. Sacha Baron Cohen set the gold standard for pranksterism with his ...
In late 2005, the world learned that JT LeRoy-the former teenage prostitute who as a young transgendered novelist living in San Francisco had transformed himself into a minor celebrity and " darling of the avant-garde"-was actually a forty-year-old woman named Laura Albert ...
When Savannah Knoop was 19 and waiting tables for a living, she received an unusual proposition. Her sister-in-law, Laura Albert, had written a novel under the pen name JT LeRoy. Albert wanted Knoop to impersonate LeRoy and help promote the book.. The ...
The trunk show for Tinc - the tiny San Francisco-based fashion label - is New York Fashion Week's most achingly hip, most secretive event. In October 2005, Stephen Beachy, a reporter from New York magazine, published his suspicions that JT LeRoy was the ...
orgies of recrimination" that have followed the literary hoaxes of the last few years, including the JT LeRoy scandal, in which the reformed transgender truck-stop prostie was revealed to be the creation of Laura Albert, the wife of the half-brother of Savannah ...
When I read this gushy New York Times feature about the white girl who grew up in South Central L.A. with a black family, and who grew up as a gang-banger, then wrote " In a sometimes tearful, often contrite telephone interview ...
Author of Tale About Prostitute Must Pay Legal Fees of Triple That of NY Jury VerdictAuthor Laura Albert must pay nearly $350,000 in legal fees, triple the amount a jury said she owes a production company for duping it with a ...
NYC Jury Says Novelist's Character a Fraud, Awards Thousands to Movie CompanyTo writer Laura Albert, her alter ego was a psychological necessity, but to jurors, the fictitious male prostitute JT LeRoy was a fraud. A Manhattan jury decided Friday that Albert ...
Manhattan Jury: Movie Company Defrauded by AuthorA woman who used the alter ego of a nonexistent male prostitute to pen an autobiographical novel defrauded a production company that wanted to make a film about her life, a jury decided Friday.The Manhattan ...
Laura Albert, the woman who posed as J.T. Leroy, has been taken to court by the production company who bought the film rights to her novel Sarah, a work that was presented to the public -- and the film company -- as autobiographical ...
