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Apr 23, 2019 · He was a rags-to-riches writer adored by everyone from Bono to Madonna. But JT LeRoy was actually Savannah Knoop in a wig. As the scam becomes a film, the performer tells all.
Savannah Knoop (born 1981) is an American artist and filmmaker. From 1999 to 2005, Knoop performed the public role of literary hoax JT Leroy.
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In 2007, they published their memoir Girl Boy Girl: How I Became JT LeRoy (Seven Stories Press) and adapted it into a screenplay, co-producing the resulting feature-length film JT Leroy (Universal Pictures,2019) directed by Justin Kelly, starring Kristen Stewart as Knoop.
The public role of JT Leroy is played by Savannah Knoop, Geoffrey Knoop's half sister, who is in her mid-20's. A photograph of Ms. Knoop at a 2003 opening for a clothing store in San...
May 3, 2019 · Knoop eventually wrote a memoir about the experience of becoming the physical embodiment of Leroy, befriending Dennis Cooper, Winona Ryder, Courtney Love, Bruce Benderson, Gus Van Sant, and Asia Argento, and keeping Albert’s character in the public eye for six years before being exposed.
Jan 22, 2019 · Savannah Knoop stumbled into art in a uniquely personal—and public—way. Two decades ago, when Knoop, who uses the pronoun “they,” was just 19 years old, they appeared as the public face of teenage-prostitute-turned-literary-wunderkind JT LeRoy.
