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- A few months later, Stephen Beachy, in an October 2005 article in New York magazine, revealed that LeRoy was indeed a fictional creation, invented by writer Laura Albert, and that LeRoy's purported public appearances in wig and sunglasses were made by an actor.
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A few months later, Stephen Beachy, in an October 2005 article in New York magazine, revealed that LeRoy was indeed a fictional creation, invented by writer Laura Albert, and that LeRoy's purported public appearances in wig and sunglasses were made by an actor. [12]
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Apr 25, 2019 · April 25, 20195:00 PM ET. By. Andrew Lapin. Enlarge this image. Kristen Stewart plays a real-life literary fraud in JT LeRoy. Allen Fraser/Universal Pictures. The literary world was a more...
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