Would somebody please sue the author formerly known as JT LeRoy? Now that the real creator of Sarah and The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things has been revealed as literary con-artist Laura Albert, it is high time the saga’s apparently fairytale ending is well and truly thwarted. It needs to be done quickly and clinically, before the next wave of deceptive wordsmiths rally behind Albert’s banner, and Hollywood starts work on the movie of the hoax – the rights to which have already been sold by Albert’s estranged partner, Geoffrey Knoop.
Write off the fraudsters
Would somebody please sue the author formerly known as JT LeRoy? If a fraudster was found to be impersonating a doctor at a hospital they'd be in trouble. So why should the woman who carved out a literary career by inducing assistance out of sympathy, by pretending to be a man dying of AIDS, be allowed to profit from her deception?
10 Feb 2006
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