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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 ...
Apr 25, 2019 · JT LeRoy: The US's greatest literary scam. Two decades ago, a transgender sex worker-turned-novelist became a sensation – but he didn’t exist. As a new film about the con is released, Kaleem ...
JT, or Jeremy, LeRoy, or “Terminator” (as he was first known), was a teenage hustler who’d been pimped out as a cross-dressed prostitute by his mother at truck stops throughout the South...
Sep 16, 2016 · Movies. The Woman Who Invented Literary 'It Boy' JT Leroy Finally Speaks Out About Hoax That Fooled Winona Ryder, Courtney Love and More. Laura Albert reveals how she managed to fool Hollywood...
Aug 22, 2016 · The woman behind one of literature’s most notorious "hoaxes" talks to V.F. about the upcoming doc Author: The JT LeRoy Story. By Yohana Desta. August 22, 2016. Jeremiah “Terminator” LeRoy is...
Feb 7, 2006 · The writer penning the novels of “JT LeRoy,” a purported 25-year-old former male prostitute and drug addict, has been unmasked as a 40-year-old woman who allegedly undertook the ruse to...
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Sep 6, 2016 · The JT Leroy scandal has returned to the headlines, thanks to a new documentary. Author: The JT LeRoy Story tells the tale of Laura Albert, the middle-aged woman who posed as a gay, former teen ...
