A Manhattan jury decided that writer Laura Albert had defrauded a production company that bought the movie rights to an autobiographical novel marketed as being based on the life of her fictional alter ego, JT Leroy. The federal jury, after a short deliberation, awarded $116,500 to Antidote International Films Inc.
June 25, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
To writer Laura Albert, her alter ego was a psychological necessity, but to jurors, the fictitious male prostitute JT LeRoy was a fraud.
A Manhattan jury decided Friday that Albert had defrauded a production company that bought the movie rights to an autobiographical novel marketed as being based on LeRoy’s life.
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