What ever happened to JT Leroy? Or was that just a pseudonym?

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Remember hearing stories about who the author was....some say male some say female.

Just curious.

Oh..also that they were not true stories....just somesone very wild imagination.

someones (oops)

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Yes, J.T. Leroy was an assumed identity for Laura Albert.
Actually I got a snippet from the New York Times, explaining that
J.T. Leroy is actually a she, but I didn't want to pay to access the whole article.
Jeremy "Terminator" LeRoy is the name used by an American author who originally published as Terminator and later JT LeRoy.

Though the author claimed LeRoy was born October 31, 1980 in West Virginia, an exposé in October 2005 gave evidence that JT LeRoy was a hoax created by Laura Albert. In a January 2006 article in The New York Times, LeRoy's agent, manager, movie producer, as well as several journalists, declared that the LeRoy seen in public was Savannah Knoop, the half sister of Albert's then partner, Geoffrey Knoop. In a February 2006 interview with The New York Times, Geoffrey Knoop stated that Laura Albert was author of the LeRoy books. Albert has since confirmed that she is the writer behind the LeRoy books.

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http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.h…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JT_LeRoy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Alber…

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