Laura Albert Sued–JT LeRoy Creator

Laura Alpert (seen above), aka JT LeRoy (seen above, but not really), is being sued by Antidote Films:

A film production company has sued Ms. Albert for fraud, saying that a contract signed with JT Leroy to make a feature film of Sarah should be null and void, for the simple reason that JT Leroy does not exist.

The jury heard about Albert’s dreadful childhood which had been the springboard for the invention of LeRoy. In a strange segue, Steven Shainberg, the director of Secretary, wants to incorporate Albert’s own story into a revamped version of the movie (Sarah Plus), but she won’t grant the rights.

Has she sold her own story somewhere else?

Bloomsbury Publishers was named in the original suit, as was Judi Farkas, LeRoy’s manager.

(The NY Times story describes Albert as “a mother and otherwise obscure young novelist from Brooklyn Heights”, but she lived in San Francisco for most of her career, as the Times reported last February.)

Earlier:
GalleyCat Meets Laura Albert

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