JT LeRoy: Is it hoax or business fraud?

NEW YORK (AP)- For years, writer Laura Albert went to strange lengths to hide her identity behind an alter ego named JT LeRoy.

Friends donned wigs and posed as the fictitious LeRoy at book signings. They snookered journalists with a phony back story about a past as an underage male prostitute. Albert even made phone calls to a psychiatrist while posing as the troubled teen, and grabbed the attention of such authors as Tobias Wolff and Dave Eggers, and filmmaker Gus Van Sant.

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USA Today interview with Albert
Fascinating!

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