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Savannah Knoop

‘Author: The JT LeRoy Story’ – The Tell-All Story Behind The Phony Literary ‘It Boy’

September 23, 2016 by James Jay Edwards

JT LeRoy was a real-life Cinderella: an androgynous boy with a truck stop prostitute for a mother who lived a life of drug addiction and sexual abuse before becoming a literary phenomenon when his first autobiographical book, Sarah, was published in 1999.  JT LeRoy was also a fraud: an identity manufactured by writer Laura Albert […]

Filed Under: Documentary, Entertainment, Features, Movies, Uncategorized Tagged With: Asia Argento, Billy Corgan, Bono, Courtney Love, Gus Van Sant, Jeff Feuerzeig, JT LeRoy, Laura Albert, Michael Pitt, Savannah Knoop, Tom Waits

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