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Rupertbear
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09-19-2003

Tuesday, February 07, 2006 - 3:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rupertbear a private message Print Post    
http://breakingnews.iol.ie/entertainment/story.asp?j=3654285&p=36543xx&n=365
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Popular male writer 'unmasked as woman'

07/02/2006 - 18:46:06

The bizarre mystery surrounding the true identity of a writer claiming to be
a 25-year-old former male prostitute and drug addict may have been solved.

JT LeRoy, whose purportedly semi-autobiographical tales about growing up as
an HIV-infected child hustler won critical acclaim and a celebrity
following, is now said to have been unmasked as a 40-year-old woman.

LeRoy never existed and Laura Albert - who had previously claimed to have
rescued LeRoy from the streets and started him on his literary career - in
fact wrote the books, according to a lawyer for Albert's estranged partner,
Geoffrey Knoop.

Knoop, 39, who apologised for his role in the hoax, said the stress of
keeping it secret had become too much to bear.

The couple split in December after 16 years and are currently deciding
custody of their young son.

His lawyer Eric Feig said: "He's wanted to come clean and let JT fade away.

"He wanted to take the high road."

Mr Feig added that his client had secured a film deal to tell his side of
the story.

LeRoy's works, which include Sarah and The Heart is Deceitful Above All
Things, were not bestsellers but delighted critics and celebrities such as
Winona Ryder, Courtney Love, Carrie Fisher and Madonna.

Albert allegedly undertook the ruse to get her work recognised.

The cult of JT (short for Jeremy Terminator) LeRoy began unravelling in
October with an article in New York magazine asking who he really was and
pointing at Albert.

Last month, a story in the New York Times identified the person who often
appeared in public as LeRoy, complete with long blond wig, hat and shades,
as Knoop's half sister, Savannah Knoop.

Knoop told the newspaper this weekend that he had seen Albert write the
books of JT Leroy in their San Francisco apartment, and had often been
present when she conducted telephone conversations as LeRoy.

"The jig is up," he said.

"I do want to apologise to people who were hurt. It got to a level I didn't
expect."

The 39-year-old rock musician added: "If you're feeling more and more
suffocated by the complications and lies, it's not worth it."

He said his and Albert's separation was in large part because of stress
caused by the deception.
LeRoy's lawyer, Peter Cane, did not comment.

The writer's story, recounted in dozens of interviews, was that Albert was a
social worker who rescued the teenager from the streets of San Francisco's
Tenderloin district around 1993.

Under her guidance he supposedly saw Dr Terrence Owens, a psychologist
specialising in treating adolescents, who encouraged him to write.

Dr Owens was then said to have passed an early manuscript to a neighbour who
was an editor, creating a literary icon.

Weinermr
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08-18-2001

Tuesday, February 07, 2006 - 5:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Weinermr a private message Print Post    
<rolls his eyes>

Rupertbear
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09-19-2003

Tuesday, February 07, 2006 - 9:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rupertbear a private message Print Post    
LOL, Meister...dunno why but your post made me laugh out loud when I read it...:-)

It's an epidemic I tell ya! ;)

Max
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08-12-2000

Tuesday, February 07, 2006 - 10:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Max a private message Print Post    
a
How anyone could look at this picture and NOT see two women in it is beyond me.

Rupertbear
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09-19-2003

Wednesday, February 08, 2006 - 8:46 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rupertbear a private message Print Post    
The chick in the suit is 'supposed' to be a male/druggie/prostitute, Max???

That's hilarious. She going to a Hallowe'en party? ;)

Maris
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03-28-2002

Wednesday, February 08, 2006 - 9:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Maris a private message Print Post    
Is oprah pissed?

Rupertbear
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09-19-2003

Wednesday, February 08, 2006 - 10:17 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rupertbear a private message Print Post    
ROFLMAO!!!!!

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Wednesday, February 08, 2006 - 10:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
Sad but in a way it's extremely funny as well. Love the picture Max.

Cndeariso
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06-28-2004

Wednesday, February 08, 2006 - 10:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Cndeariso a private message Print Post    
jt

here is another picture.

here is another version of the story:

JTLeroy

Max
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08-12-2000

Wednesday, February 08, 2006 - 11:45 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Max a private message Print Post    
it just shows to go ya that folks will believe what they want to believe. I never in a million years would have believed the blond in either of those pictures was a man -- okay, maybe a man in drag or a transvestite, but that's about it.

But then, when I first saw The Crying Game, I came out of the theater asking my friends what the big "surprise" scene was suppposed to have been (since every time you heard about the movie, you heard about the "shocking scene"). They looked at me like I was crazy and said, "When you found out she was really a he!" Hmmm... I wasn't surprised by that at all. It seemed obvious that she was (or at least had started out as) a man. :-)

Laralyn
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08-04-2005

Wednesday, February 08, 2006 - 2:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Laralyn a private message Print Post    
Too dang funny Maris.

Ocean_islands
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09-07-2000

Thursday, February 09, 2006 - 5:54 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ocean_islands a private message Print Post    
The writer was supposedly a transvestite prostitute so it wasn't so unusual that the "writer" appeared like that. It was outré.

Rupertbear
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09-19-2003

Thursday, February 09, 2006 - 12:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rupertbear a private message Print Post    
Yeah but wasn't the writer supposed to be a male? That looks like a female not a male in drag.

Cndeariso
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06-28-2004

Thursday, February 09, 2006 - 1:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Cndeariso a private message Print Post    
is that what was supposed to be the big secret of The Crying Game? since it was obvious to me that 'she' was a 'he' i didn't get it. it wasn't that great of a movie either.

those photos don't look like a male to me either. in fact they look like a female trying to go out of her way to look different.

Tabbyking
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03-11-2002

Thursday, February 09, 2006 - 4:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tabbyking a private message Print Post    
and the other gal's dressed like laura in 'little house on the prairie'. wow! great get-up gals. you had us all fooled