Jerome Bettis (or even James Frey) ain’t got nothin on Laura Albert!
Laura Albert, aka JT LeRoy, a drug addicted male truck stop prostitute, has been living a lie! And it isn’t a little, “I wanted to look like more of a badass” sort of way, but a serious, intentional misleading of a publishing company, and the world. And not even terribly smalltime. Her most popular book Sarah was published by Bloomsbury USA, we’re talking the publishing house who prints Bono, man. “This food is for the stahrving chil-ren, Petah,” Bono. Also there’s that little English dear, JK Rowling with her little magic tales. Anyway, Laura had various people pretend to be her pretending to be him, and really really tried to make it work. At her court appearance she said it wasn’t a hoax because she “believed he was inside of her” which is something many people have said about male prosti… I should probably stop there. She was recently ordered to pay not just the legal fees of a production company working on a movie of her work. Here’s a little story about it.