In an age when the boundaries between truth and fiction appear increasingly untrustworthy and problematic for readers and publishers alike, author has been ordered to pay $350,000 in legal fees to a production company, Antidote International Films, Inc.
According to the Guardian , Albert defrauded the company by selling it the screen rights to "an autobiography that was really fiction."
The autobiography claimed to tell the life story of author JT LeRoy, who overcame his troubled past as a cross-dressing male prostitute by writing fiction.Over the next 10 years, LeRoy built up a sizeable following. In 2006, it was revealed that JT LeRoy was really the fictitious creation and alter-ego of Laura Albert herself. Albert testified that LeRoy was a "veil" that allowed her to communicate with the outside world; on numerous occasions, she went so far as to don a wig and pose as LeRoy for signings and interviews.
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