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Sarah signed by "JT LeRoy". Jeremiah Terminator LeRoy, or simply JT LeRoy, is a literary persona created in the 1990s by American writer Laura Albert.LeRoy was presented as the author of three books of fiction, which were purportedly semi-autobiographical accounts by a teenage boy of his experiences of poverty, drug use, and emotional and sexual abuse in his childhood and adolescence from ...
Author: The JT LeRoy Story is a 2016 American documentary film about American writer Laura Albert and her literary persona JT LeRoy. [2] It examines the critical acclaim given the JT LeRoy books and their international popularity, and the subsequent scandal when it was revealed that LeRoy did not exist and Albert had written the books.
Laura Victoria Albert (born November 2, 1965) is an American author who invented the literary persona JT LeRoy, whom Albert described as an "avatar." [1] She published various works of purportedly autobiographical fiction under the LeRoy name before being revealed as the true author.
The screenplay by Argento and Alessandro Magania is based on JT LeRoy's novel of the same name. The film received a limited release in North America on March 10, 2006, shortly after Laura Albert was revealed to be the actual author of the JT LeRoy books.
A little mudslinging is par for the course in every awards season. But this year might be the messiest Oscar race on record.. Over the last few months, a slew of best picture nominees have ...
Firerose is speaking out following her ex-husband Billy Ray Cyrus' inauguration performance controversy. In a statement obtained by PEOPLE, the Australian singer, 36, says of Cyrus, 63, "What’s ...
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Who Is KK Downey? is a 2008 comedy film directed by Pat Kiely and Darren Curtis. [1] It was produced in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.. Loosely based on the JT Leroy controversy, the film stars Darren Curtis and Matt Silver as Terrance Permenstein and Theo Huxtable, two friends who invent the character of KK Downey, a transgender street prostitute, as the "author" of Theo's novel Truck Stop Hustler ...